[ 2017-03-16 ]

22 police recruits sacked for presenting ‘fake’ certificates
A total of twenty-two police recruits undergoing
training at the Pwalugu Police Training School in
the Upper East Region have been sacked.

The twenty-two recruits made up of fourteen women
and eight men, were sacked for allegedly
presenting fake admission letters and certificates
for admission to the school.

Speaking to Citi News, the Commander of the
Training School, ACP Victor Adusei Poku, explained
that, the sacked recruits who had spent three
months in the school were being investigated
together with their colleagues by the West Africa
Examination Council (WAEC) to ascertain the
genuineness of their certificates used for the
admission.

He added that, “WAEC confirmed as fake and
doctored the certificates” used by the affected
recruits for their admission hence their
dismissal.

“About twenty-two of police recruits were
withdrawn because some of their admission letters
they brought to the school, after vetting them on
WAEC website, we realized that, they had their own
names with their own certificates, but they took
other people’s admission letters. And others too
doctored their grades to meet our standard
requirements so they were exposed by WAEC
representatives and so we have dismissed them,”
he added.

ACP Victor Adusei Poku noted that, they realized
that the indicted recruits were almost halfway in
completing the training, “we withdrew them from
active participation of the six months training”
adding that “we have also profiled them and
taken their statements and given them
self-recognizance bail.”

“Their offences are misdemeanor so we have
written to the Attorney General office for the
necessary advice,” ACP Poku added.

He further advised the public especially those
seeking to be enlisted into the service, to use
genuine certificates for the process or else when
caught they will face the full rigors of the law.

“It appears to me that, these are people who
knew that they do not qualify by our standard, yet
they find any means to join the service. Sometimes
they pay huge sums of money for people to get them
into the service only to be swindled. That fact
that one is unemployed doesn’t mean that, the
small money you have, you must use it to buy your
way into the service, in the end you will be
exposed and if not lucky you could be
prosecuted,” the Police commander explained.

Source - citifmonline.com

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