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Deputy Communications Director of the Progressive People�s Party (PPP), Samuel Amoako has called on security agencies to step up their game in combating crimes in the nation. Speaking on �Kokrokoo� on Peace FM today, the PPP Communicator appealed to the security services to always be on the lookout for criminals in order to safeguard the Ghanaian populace from attacks by robbers and assailants. He said the Police Service and all security personnel in the nation should not only wait for people to perpetrate crimes before they are apprehended but rather be tough on the ground, fishing out possible threats to the peace of the nation. He was speaking in connection to the recent killings that took place in Kumasi in the Ashanti Region and therefore admonished the security core to mete out punitive measures to persons who disturb public peace. He urged the security agencies to stop people from openly brandishing offensive weapons since such scenes possibly intensify the crime rate in the country. He called on them to address the issue where the citizens use weapons such as gun, whether licensed or unlicensed, inappropriately. To him, arresting culprits is not enough and as a result, the government and the security agencies should be ready to go a step further in spotting the potential criminals even before they executive their diabolic intentions on innnocent Ghanaians. �We are in a country that people go about brandishing offensive weapons while people are seated there. People use weapons with impunity. If we don�t address this issue� it will escalate the situation, he noted. He suggested that the security services in the country �should work in such a way that they become observant and gain information that makes sure it prevents those crimes than sit there for it to happen before we place a bounty on the heads of the criminals.� �It is about time the government stamps its feet. The time has come for them to tell us something concrete.� he stressed.