Police must stop these scams

The Daily Graphic yesterday carried a front page story in which hundreds of unemployed youth had been swindled by what appears to be a well-organised fake recruitment agency in the name of enlisting them into the Ghana Police Service.

The young men and women who turned up at five police training depots in the country with their luggage to begin the training received immeasurable shock when they learnt that they had been swindled.

The people who were swindled had paid sums ranging from GH¢2,000 to GH¢3,500 to the fraudsters.

The Director-General in charge of the Press and Public Affairs Department of the Ghana Police Service, Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCOP) Rev David Nenyi Ampah-Benin, said the scam was so well orchestrated that all the victims were given appointment letters purported to have been written by the police.

The Daily Graphic extends its sympathies to those who have been victimised by this scam recruitment process.

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