22 police recruits dismissed for submitting false WAEC certificates
According to the service, the recruits, who are in their third month of training, were dismissed after it was found that they had presented false documents as part of the recruitment process.
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In an interview with Accra-based Citi FM, ACP Victor Adusei Poku, the Commander of the Pwalugu Police Training School, the fake educational certificates were found by the West Africa Examination Council (WAEC).
“About twenty-two of police recruits were withdrawn because some of their admission letters they brought to the school, after vetting them on WAEC website, we realized that, they had their own names with their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,”
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Analysis
In 2016, when the recruitment drive began, 17,000 young people in Ghana signed up to join the police service within two days of the three-week exercise.
Thousands of young Ghanaians try to get into the police force each year because it is often seen by many as an escape route out of youth unemployment. This leaves many young people desperate and willing to get in by hook or by crook, and in turn leaving them vulnerable in the hands of fraudsters.
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