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Credible information available to Chronicle on Saturday indicates that Police General Constable Aniagyei Bonsu will soon face trail, following his involvement in a narcotic related case. Mr. Bonsu was on Wednesday arrested in uniform behind the wheel of a Peugeot saloon car, loaded with 60 parcels of dreid leaves suspected to be Indian hemp. According to media reports, Constable Bonsu, a few hours after his arrest, was interdicted by the Police Administration at the instance of the Inspector General of Police (IGP), Paul Tawiah Quaye. Following his interdiction, Constable Bonsu is expected to be handed over to the Police Intelligence and Professional Standards unit for further investigations into the matter, leading to his arrest. �if he is found culpable, he will be taken through service inquiry, where he will be tried internally, the Director of Public Affairs Service, DSP Cephas Arthur, told Chronicle on Saturday in a telephone interview. Constable Bonsu, according to the police administration, is further expected to be handed over to the Criminal Intelligence Department (CID) of the Ghana Police Service to find out if there was any criminal aspect for carting the suspected Indian hemp from Kpeve and heading towards Ho in the Volta Region. �If the CID finds any criminal aspect in what he did, he will be prosecuted,� said DSP Arthur. Constable Bonsu was arrested by the Drug Law Enforcement Unit of the Volta Regional Police Command, led by Mr. Joseph Nakoja, upon a tipoff. A day after his arrest, the Volta Regional Police Commander, Alex Bedie, told journalists that the Unit encountered the vehicle in which Constable Bonsu was driving at Sokode-Etoe. According to a GNA report, bread-like compressed parcels were retrieved from the car booth of Constable Bonsu when a search was conducted on his vehicle. A trader, who was in the vehicle with Constable Bonsu, according to the Police Command, claimed ownership of the vehicle. Mr. Bedie said the two confessed the parcles contained Indian-hemp being ferried from Kpeve to Aflao on contract for a Madam Jane for free. The Police Commander said initial investigations indicated that Bonsu and Akoto, who wre schoolmates at Akim Oda, met again at Ashaiman where Bonsu had been posted, and continued to see each other frequently when Bonsu moved to Keta on transfer. He said the two were engaged in transporting Indian henp from Kpeve to Aflao, and confessed the current round-trip, which turned sour, was the fifth. Mr. Bedie said the two had declined to show the place of supply and delivery of hteleaces, and also the identity of the said Jane. Mr. Bedie said Bonsu was interdicted within hours of his arrest on the orders of the Inspector General of Police.