THE Ghana Police Service has announced that it has dismissed some forty-one (41) police trainees from the various police training schools across the country. These police recruits, we understand, were sacked on grounds of allegedly using fake certificates to be recruited into the Service.
ACCORDING to the Director of the Public Affairs Directorate of the Ghana Police Service, Superintendent Cephas Arthur (Mr.), who spoke to the Daily Graphic on Wednesday, March 22, 2017, the exercise forms part of background checks being undertaken by his outfit, to flush out undesirable elements from the Service.
HE went on to give the assurance that the process would continue to the end of the six-month training process for newly recruited personnel at the various police training facilities in the country.
OBVIOUSLY, this is not the first time that police trainees have been dismissed on the grounds of using fictitious documents. In fact, it appears our security institutions are becoming fertile grounds for undesirable persons to infiltrate, which consequences afterwards, become detrimental to the society they are mandated to protect.
IT is not only surprising but equally frightening that of late we hear of police officers indulging in criminal activities. Shockingly, some of them are senior officers. A case in point is the recent arrest of five policemen, including a Police Commander and a Deputy Superintendent of Police in connection with a number of alleged fraudulent gold deals running into several millions of Ghana Cedis.
WEEKEND TODAY is excited that the police hierarchy is intensifying its efforts to ensure that bad elements are weeded out from the Service. Ghanaians need a Police Service that they can trust. A Service that they have high confidence in to protect them and their properties and which they can cooperate with when necessary.
FURTHERMORE, it is a welcoming piece of news that these recruits are not only expelled but are also arraigned before the courts for the laws of this country to deal with them. It is imperative that the police hierarchy takes pragmatic steps to deter unwanted persons from gaining access into the Service. The action taken by the Service is indeed a step in the right direction.
IT is possible that some of these trainees escaped the radar or might have been helped by some senior officers. Whatever route these expelled trainees entered the Service, Weekend Today is happy at the steps taken by the police administration to rid the Service of bad nuts.
THIS, we believe, will encourage the Ghanaian public to repose a lot of confidence in our Police Service and also assist them to carry out their responsibilities efficiently. The country needs a Police Service that can be trusted and not one that fails to meet expectation and the confidence of the citizenry
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