Sale of police recruitment forms; GCB assures smooth operations

Enoch Darfah Frimpong May - 11 - 2016 , 17:16

The GCB Bank Limited has advised all prospective recruits into the Police Service who wish to purchase recruitment vouchers at the bank to note that it was working with its technology partners to ensure a smooth exercise over the stipulated three week period.

According to the bank, it experienced a large number of prospective recruits at its branches which has affected the smooth flow of operations.

“The Bank assures them that it has the needed capacity and will continue to provide excellent service throughout the three week period which ends on May 31, 2016. The Bank is committed to ensuring a seamless exercise and would need the understanding and collaboration of all applicants,” a statement issued by the bank said.

Many prospective police recruits Wednesday morning besieged various branches of the GCB Bank with the hope of paying for their electronic application vouchers which had gone on sale, but they had to endure long hours of waiting since the system for selling the forms had gone down.

The Police Service this year decided to resort to an electronic means in receiving applications as part of efforts at reducing the involvement of intermediaries.

Previous police recruitment have been marred by scams, with a recent one leading to the interdiction of the Director General of Human Resource, COP Patrick Timbillah in 2015.

With this year’s recruitment, applicants are to purchase vouchers at the GCB Bank across Ghana at the cost of GhȻ100 and then fill out their details online at the police website since the mode of application is done only online.