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Tongues are wagging in the Ghana Police Service over a planned transfer of the top brass of the institution as Election 2012 draws near. Credible information reaching DAILY GUIDE indicates that the long-time Director of the Police hospital, Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCOP), George Asiamah has been transferred to the police headquarters as head of Police Paramedics Unit. Dr Asiamah has been replaced with the former Commanding Officer of the 37 Military Hospital, Brig. Jaswant M. Wadhwani (rtd). Sources said DCOP Patrick Timbillah, who was recently transferred to the Greater Accra as Regional Commander from the Ashanti Region, is also set to be sent to the Police Workshop where DCOP Bernard Derry, who died a couple of weeks ago, was brought from the Volta Region to head. A street was named after DCOP Timbillah in Kumasi for his meritorious service after his stint as the Ashanti regional police chief.The move is therefore considered as a deliberate attempt to get rid of some senior police officers tagged as pro-NPP from key and influential positions in the Service in view of the upcoming elections. Meanwhile, the likes of Commissioner of Police (COP) Hamidu Mahama and others considered pro-government who have long reached their retirement age are still without a reduction in their ranks to DCOP, in accordance with Police Service Regulation. COP Mahama is especially busy handling the recruitments of ruling party-friendly persons into the Service. COP Rose Bio Atinga, the lady in charge of Administration, is said to have suspended the distribution of some 1000 vehicles acquired for policing. DCOP Adu Poku, Director General of Technical Services, had already arranged the distribution, which was suspended by Rose. The stalled distribution is said to have infuriated many superior officers, especially considering the reason behind the delay. COP Rose�s daughter was said to have been ill and she could not therefore be around to supervise the distribution. In a related development, COP Rose was said to have stopped motor checks by the police throughout the country under circumstances unknown to many of her colleagues.