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The
Police
service
has
replied
to
Wa
West
Member
of
Parliament
Peter
Toobu
on
the
secret
recruitment
claim.
The
Police
say
they
have
not
commenced
recurrent,
contrary
to
the
claim
by
the
lawmaker.
Peter
Toobu,
a
former
Superintendent
of
Police,
had
said
his
checks
at
the
Police
Training
School
at
Tesano
revealed
some
people
were
going
through
medicals
for
recruitment
without
any
public
announcement
of
the
exercise.
But
the
Police
in
a
statement
said
“The
Ghana
Police
Service
has
monitored
comments
attributed
to
the
Hon.
Member
of
Parliament
for
Wa
West,
Mr.
Peter
Toboo,
to
the
effect
that
there
is
an
ongoing
recruitment
exercise
at
the
National
Police
Training
School
without
any
public
announcement
of
the
exercise.
“We
wish
to
state
that
the
Police
Service
has
not
commenced
any
exercise
of
such
nature.”
The
Interior
Minister,
Henry
Quartey
also
said
the
security
and
intelligence
agencies
had
not
started
new
recruitment
into
the
security
service.
What
is
currently
happening
is
that
applicants
who
have
already
bought
the
forms
are
the
ones
being
engaged
at
the
moment
to
ascertain
their
eligibility
or
otherwise.
Mr
Quartey
said
these
after
refuting
allegations
by
the
Minority
in
Parliament
that
the
Ministry
is
secretly
recruiting
into
the
security
services.
For
the
record,
he
said,
the
Ministry
for
the
Interior
does
not
do
recruitment.
It
is
the
security
and
intelligence
agencies
themselves
that
do
that,
he
said.
The
Minority
had
threatened
to
summon
Mr
Quartey
to
the
house
following
reports
of
recruitment
of
11,000
personnel
into
the
security
service.
But
addressing
the
press
in
parliament
on
Tuesday,
July
16,
he
said
“are
we
saying
that
we
continue
to
advertise
and
sell
forms
to
the
youth
of
this
country
knowing
that
the
number
of
people
that
will
be
eligible
may
not
even
be
2000
and
we
continue
to
sell
forms
to
the.
“This
is
why
we
are
saying
that
let
us
give
the
opportunity
to
those
who
have
these
forms
so
that
they
can
go
through
the
process
as
Ghanaians,
if
they
are
able
to
meet
the
eligibility
criteria
then
they
are
recruited.”
Interior
Minister
dismisses
allegation
of
secret
recruitment
into
security
services
He
added
“So
our
position
is
to
say
clearly
that
we
have
not
started
recruitment.
I
have
heard
a
lot
of
things
out
there
but
for
the
record,
the
Ministry
of
the
Interior
does
not
do
recruitment,
we
are
policy
drivers.
“It
is
the
security
and
intelligence
agencies
that
do
the
recruitment
and
they
have
criteria
for
people
to
meet
and
the
number
of
people
they
need,
then
the
Ministry
of
Finance
will
give
the
approval.
Once
that
approval
is
given
they
go
through
the
process
and
then
they
engage.”