836 COMMUNITY POLICE ASSISTANTS PASS OUT IN KSI

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A total of 836 recruits under the Community Police Assistants module of the Youth Employment Agency have passed out from a six-week training at the Ashanti Regional Police Training School in Kumasi. 

They are made up of 423 from the Ashanti region, with the remaining 413 to be deployed to the Brong Ahafo region.


 Also, the recruits were made up of 609 males as against 227 females. 

They underwent training in First Aid, Traffic Management, the Law of Evidence, Report Writing among other subjects. 

 The Kumasi recruits represent 26 point-six-nine per cent of the total recruits under the module nationwide. 

The Brong Ahafo Regional Director of the Youth Employment Agency, Joseph Holison who read the Agency’s address, disclosed that nearly 27 thousand persons applied for recruitment into the Community Police Assistant module nationwide. 

However, only three thousand, 180 of them were recruited for some reasons. 

According to Mr. Holison, the module is just one of the many employment modules being rolled out by the Agency towards reduction in the figures of youth unemployment in the country. 

He said Act 887 of 2015 which is the legal framework of Youth Employment Agency mandates it to develop, coordinate, supervise and facilitate the creation of jobs for Ghanaian youth aged from 15 to 35 years, whether abled or disabled. 

Mr. Holison expressed the hope that the recruits would help to augment the human resource capacity of the Ghana Police Service to provide the required security and safety for law abiding residents in Ghana. 

The Ashanti Regional Minister, John Alexander Ackon cautioned the recruits against taking advantage of their uniforms to arrogate unto themselves powers and authority they don’t deserve.

They must also help the regular police to improve upon the Community Policing concept to assuage any fears of members of the community about their personal safety and security. 

This, he noted could be achieved, if they collaborate with community leaders, the Assembly Members and Unit Committees to provide security at the local levels. 

The Regional Minister asked the recruits to be respectful and law abiding in their work since their future employment could be defined by their relationship with their superiors in the regular police service. 

Recruit Master Maxwell Obiri Yeboah from Yamfo was adjudged as the overall best from the Brong Ahafo Region, while Miss Rita Awuku emerged as the Best from the Ashanti region. 

They each received a parcel as their prizes.





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