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INFORMATION AVAILABLE to the Daily Heritage indicates that the New Juaben Municipal Police Commander, DSP Christopher Quacoo, has put a ban on retail of �pure water� by the wives of some police officers at the Central police station barracks following the paper�s expose� of mass recruitment of under age children to sell on the streets. The paper�s sources have revealed that the wives of the police officers who engage in the business have been asked to stop the sale of pure water at the barracks until further notice. It would be recalled that the paper last week published on its front page under the headline �POLICE OFFICERS� WIVES BUSTED!�RECRUITING UNDER-AGE KIDS TO SELL ON STREETS� and exposed the mass recruitment of under-age children by the wives of the police officers to sell �pure water� on the streets of the municipality. The children aged between 6 and 15 years were mostly school dropouts and truant school children with poor family backgrounds who defied the dangers on the streets to chase money. Some of the children explained to the paper that they were paid on commission basis depending on the number of sachet water they sold daily. Some of the children were either living with their family members or parents who sadly were aware of the work the children were engaged in, but cited economic hardship as the reason for allowing their wards to sell on the streets.