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But for the timely intervention of the police on Friday, the Tema and Nsawam-Accra-bound trains would have crushed a number of suspected drug addicts, who were asleep on the rail tracks, at Achimota, after sniffing cocaine. The drug addicts, according to the police, fell asleep, with some lying prostrate on the rail while others were found asleep in-between the tracks. Some of them were said to be totally unaware of the police presence even when they were carried away from the rails to safety. �Some of them were still sleeping when we brought them to the Police station till about 9 am.� The drug addicts were among 32 people arrested in police swoop. The Tesano Divisional Police Commander, Chief Superintendent Francis Aboagye Nyarko, who disclosed this to The Ghanaian Times, said but for their swift intervention, the early hours bound trains would have run into them tearing them into pieces. He said the police saved them during an early �operation� meant to weed out criminals and drug addicts at their hideout at Aborfu, Achimota and Santana Market at Tesano and its environs. Chief Supt. Nyarko said the exercise started at about 4: am and extended to Abeka Market, Nii Boi Town, New Achimota and Lapaz, where 32 suspected criminals and drug addicts including a woman were rounded up. He said wrapped substances suspected to be Indian hemp and cocaine were found on some of them, and indicated that they would be screened and those found culpable would be put before the court. Chief Supt. Nyarko said despite frequent exercises to rid the area of criminals and other social miscreants the drug addicts still operate at joints, noting that per the directive of the Regional Command, the exercise was also to demolish a number of ghettos and make-shift structures which served as hideouts for the criminals. The exercise, he said, would be extended to Amansaman and other communities under the Tesano Command to Ensure that the areas were rid of criminals and drug addicts.