Deputy Director of the Transformation Programme Office of the Ghana Police Service, DSP Henry Ayisi has raised concerns over the quality of some police personnel recruited into the Ghana Police Service.
He said political interference in the recruitment process is hurting the quality of personnel recruited into the service.
DSP Ayisi raised these concerns at a training workshop for the police organised by the Hanns Seidel Foundation (HSF) in partnership with the Ghana Police Service (GPS).
The Programme sought to engage and discuss challenges facing the police service and the way forward with the transformational agenda set by the service.
If at all they want to provide jobs for their supporters, DSP Ayisi did not understand why the choice of the politicians will be the school drop outs.
He questioned if the police service was not deserving of high quality personnel as demanded in other organisations.
“When you talk of organisation, I know most of you are coming from places like Joy FM, you only look for the quality people to work. Don’t we also deserve the best?” DSP Ayisi queried.
The Deputy Director added that, “it is so sad that some do not even know how to write their names and would need to thumb print when they go to the bank”.
“It is so sad to find men and women today who cannot read and write who have to go to the bank and thumb print. Oh my God! why should it happen to us and the underpinning factor is politics”, he lamented.
DSP Ayisi added that sometimes they have some District Chief Executives ordering the police to free people they had arrested.
He said some personnel were handpicked and promoted over others, a situation he said is affecting the quality of performance.
Story: News Desk
