A statement signed by Deputy Superintendent of the Police Sheilla Kessie Abayie-Buckman said all the applicants who made it through the preliminary selection process, shall receive text messages from the Ghana Police Service from January 23.

[contextly_sidebar id=”HuPLaEhQyDjlHRRzrd8RUUkkoygHTVnw”]The statement also advised the applicants to check for necessary details on their recruitment portal including the assigned screening centres.

They were also advised to keep their phones and email accounts active during the period.

“Applicants are to print out the E-mail message, add it to all original copies of relevant documents which include a qualified report, GCB voucher, academic professional certificates, birth certificates, national service certificates and any other relevant document,” the statement said.

“Any applicant who presents a forged document at the screening will be arrested and prosecuted.”

The potential recruits who are selected after the screening will then sit for an examination on Sunday February 4, 2018.

The Ghana Police Service November 20 2017, began the massive recruitment drive aimed at enlisting personnel into all sectors of the service.

A statement signed at the time by the Director-General of Human Resources Development at the Ghana Police Service, COP Beatrice Vib-Sanziri, listed close to 50 units which qualified personnel will be absorbed to fill.

Recruitment for the various security agencies had usually been fraught with claims of fraud, with applicants often duped by persons claiming they could guarantee recruitment into the services.

The agencies have attempted to resolve this problem by taking the process online to cut out the activities of middlemen but a number of potential recruits have been defrauded.

The Police warned the public against messages concerning recruitment exercise from unofficial police sources and advised that they be disregarded.

“Persons who deal with these fake middlemen do it at their own risk,” the statement added.

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The Director of Public Affairs of the Ghana Police Service, Superintendent Cephas Arthur, confirmed this development to Citi News, although he said he was not privy to the numbers of recruits who were set to be expelled.

“I will confirm the fact that indeed some police recruits are going to be expelled from the training school. This is because they were found to have presented false documents,” he said.

The recruits were already aware the police command was going to check their backgrounds and subject the academic qualifications to scrutiny, according to Superintendent Arthur.

“We even indicated that we were going to WAEC to verify, and so we commenced the process until those who qualified on the surface of it were called to training. Let me say that in the early stages, some of them were disqualified and those cases that were apparent were found out, and those who possessed such documentation and other issues were dropped,” Superintendent Arthur added.

Academic qualifications for police service

The academic requirements police recruits are expected to meet include a combination of the Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE), certification from the National Board for Professional and Technician Examinations (NABPTEX), certification from the National Vocational Training Institute (NVTI) City and Guilds and the West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE).

Recruits who were found to have entered with only WASSCE certification have been referred to the CID for further vetting.

The various police training schools have also been directed to submit the full list of all expelled recruits to the Police Headquarters.

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By: Delali Adogla-Bessa/citifmonline.com/Ghana

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