The Upper East Regional Election Task Force, has begun putting up measures to provide security in all 1118 polling stations in the region to ensure peace during the 2012 Presidential and Parliamentary elections.
Mr Bright Oduro, the Regional Police Commander disclosed this in a statement signed by the Regional Public Relations Officer (PRO) of the Ghana Police Service, Assistant Superintendent Police (ASP), Mr Thomas Yaw Agbanyo.
Mr Oduro assured members of the public that a Task Force comprising some security services in the region would be beefed up in all flash points in the region to ensure that no trouble was fomented anybody.
The release indicated that personnel of security services in the region including the Fire Service, the Ghana Prisons Service, the Ghana Immigration Service, and Customs Exercise and Preventive Service (CEPS) would be deployed to help in the exercise.
It noted that District Election Security Task Forces had also been inaugurated to add to the number to ensure the elections went on smoothly.
The statement called for cooperation from the general public to make the exercise a success "all political parties should put their hands on deck to make sure the election was free from rancor".
In a related development, Mr Bruce Ayisi, Regional Electoral Commissioner, has disclosed that filling of nominations for parliamentary elections was underway in all Electoral Offices in the districts and Municipalities of the region.