Over Five Thousand Community Police Personnel have all lost their jobs today 3rd May, 2018. This is because their two years contract with the agency has ended.
Over 20,000 will follow in three weeks time and another 40,000 more in the days after.
With all these modules, the previous administration had a comprehensive policy as their exit plan where the community police after six weeks of training and two years of service to the nation will [ads1]have the opportunity to join the Ghana Police Service.
The former CEO also made it clear that the other modules will be absorbed by their respective agencies while new people are employed to go through the same system. This was a comprehensive policy the former CEO outdoored before his exit from office.
The former CEO made it clear at a press conference that the YEA community police will be given a first place priority in the police recruitment but because of change of government all the beneficiaries have been given text messages that their contracts have been terminated with effect from today and that ends their engagement with the agency.
It was clear in the statement that those who are not qualified per their certificates to be absorbed by their respective agencies will be given automatic extension to better their grades till they are qualified to the next stage.
The current CEO upon his appointment also made it clear that he was going to work with the modalities to help those whose contracts have been terminated to be engaged so that it wouldn’t be like after the two years the beneficiaries will go home and remain unemployed.
It is very pathetic today our President has pretended not to know these young men who have families from today 3rd May are going to be unemployed.
Over 60,000 of the beneficiaries will exit the agency without any concrete plans from government to engage them simply because they were recruited by the erstwhile regime.
How can government claim it is creating jobs while it is rendering others unemployed at the same time? This ironic kind of decision can only happen in Ghana under the NPP.
These are experienced trained community police officers who know the in and out of the Ghana Police Service and I believe it is very dangerous to push them into the system jobless.
Let us not take politically induced decision that would later endanger lives and properties which will be difficult to curb like the “boko haram” in Nigeria.
#GhanaFirst
Efo Worlanyo TSEKPO.
B/A REGIONAL YOUTH ORGANIZER HOPEFUL
