[ 2017-03-22 ]

The Service is still doing background checks to make sure all the recruits are suitable

41 Police recruits sacked for forgery
Forty-one police trainees have been dismissed from
police training schools for allegedly using fake
certificates to get recruited into the Ghana
Police Service.

Out of the number, 22 trainees were dismissed from
the Puwalugu Police Training School in the Upper
East Region, 10 from the Kumasi Police Training
School in the Ashanti Region, five from the Police
Training School in the Greater Accra Region, two
from the Police Training School in Koforidua,
Eastern Region, while two were from the Ho Police
Training School in the Volta Region.

The affected trainees, who have been arrested,
were recruited on November 15, 2016 and had been
in the training schools for the past four months.

The police trainees, who have been granted police
bail, are said to have either altered results on
their certificates or changed the names on the
certificates.

Others were also found to have submitted
certificates belonging to the opposite sex.

Investigations

Briefing the Daily Graphic in Accra yesterday, the
Director of the Public Affairs Directorate of the
Ghana Police Service, Superintendent Mr Cephas
Arthur, said the dismissal of the recruits was
part of background investigation being undertaken
by the Police Administration to prevent
undesirable persons from the Ghana Police
Service.

He said the process would continue to the end of
the six-month training process for the newly
recruited personnel in the various police training
schools across the country.

“We are still doing background checks on the
recruits that we have in our training schools and
anytime we stumble on any fact that will make
someone unsuitable to be a police officer, we will
expel the person,” he said.

Verification

As part of the process to verify some of the
academic credentials of the trainees, Mr Arthur
said, the documents of the trainees were forwarded
to the West African Examinations Council (WAEC)
for assessment and verification and some of them
were found to have been forged.

He said the trainees dismissed from the Police
Training School in Kumasi had been put before the
Kumasi Circuit Court and granted bail by the court
to reappear next week.

The others, he said, who had also been charged for
impersonation and forgery of documents, among
other offences, had been granted police enquiry
bail, while they were being processed for court.

Mr Arthur cautioned that the law would be brought
to bear on all the expelled recruits for forging
their academic documents, an act which was a
criminal offence, and for deceiving public
officers in the submission of their documents to
be recruited into the Ghana Police Service.

Background

To qualify for police training, applicants are
required to have obtained a WAEC certificate or
higher, be Ghanaians between the ages of 18 and
25.

Applicants must also have an average height of 173
centimetres or 5.8 feet for males and 165
centimetres and 5.4 feet for females.
Additionally, they should have no criminal record
and be medically fit.

In February 2017, the Police Administration
dismissed 206 new recruits who were undergoing
training at the Pwalugu Police Training School in
the Upper East Region because they did not meet
the academic requirements for recruitment into the
service.

Source - Graphic.com.gh

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