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The Ghana Police Service has shot down the two reports submitted on the cocaine-turned-baking soda saga which placed the blame of the swapping at the door step of the law enforcement agency. The Service has therefore pledged a reward of GH�50,000 (US$29,515. 94) to anyone who would give credible information leading to unraveling the mystery surrounding the cocaine swap. According to the Police Service, �we stand by our conviction that the exhibit was not swapped in police custody. � At a press conference on Thursday to state the official position of the Ghana Police Service on the two reports, DCOP Prosper Kwame Ablor, indicated that most of the recommendations conveyed in the final report submitted by the Chief Justice and the interim one from the Bureau of National Investigations (BNI) are baseless. He questioned the reports submitted by the two institutions and said they were inconsistent because they could not come out with �where the swapping was done, how the swapping was done, when it was done and by whom. � He also insisted that when the cocaine, which was identified as Exhibit C was tendered as evidence, the seal on it was intact and had not been tampered with. He stated that the point made in the Justice Agnes Dodzie-led committee�s report stating the exhibit did not have a �pungent smell� is not �scientific�. He further stated that the pungent smell which is now being used as a basis was never mentioned by the defense lawyers when the exhibit was first tendered as evidence. He indicated that the defense counsels� comments of a �tsunami tremor� cannot be used as a basis to believe that the [defense lawyer] was right. The Chief Justice report exonerated court officials from any wrong doing in the swapped cocaine case whiles the BNI implicated two CID officials � DSP Gifty Mawuenyega and DSP Kofi Tuadzra � in their interim report.