Police Applicants Caught With Fake Certificates

SEVENTEEN APPLICANTS who were going through the Ghana Police Service enlistment exercise at the Sunyani Coronation Park in the Brong-Ahafo Region, have been arrested for forging certificates.

They included 11 females and six males, and have since been placed in police custody to assist in investigations. They are between the ages of 18 and 27 years.

Brong-Ahafo Regional Police PRO, Chief Inspector Kinsley Oppong, told DAILY GUIDE yesterday that the names of the suspects had not been released by the police because they were still investigating the cases.

Throwing more light on the exercise, Chief Inspector Oppong said after several warnings to the candidates not to attempt to bend the rules regarding the recruitment, some of them forged documents.

According to him, a warning was sounded by the supervising officer, DCOP Paul Manly Awine, to those who were waiting for their turns to be scrutinized, but the suspects appeared to be recalcitrant.

Chief Inspector Oppong said the arrested applicants either altered birth dates on their birth certificates or tampered with results on their school certificates, whilst others who had already gone through the exercise but were disqualified on the first day, went back, altered their documents and came back in an attempt to outwit the authorities. .

He warned all graduates, professionals and other tradesmen and women who would have their turns, to be careful not to do anything untoward else anybody found to have broken the rules would be dealt with severely.

At the commencement of the exercise, the regional PRO said the region was expected to enlist over 8,000 applicants; and the second phase is expected to end on 4^th February, 2018.

This, he claimed, included 6,932 general recruits, 802 trades men and women (professionals) such as doctors, nurses, lawyers, psychologists, among others and 622 graduates.