Former Director-General of the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) of the Ghana Police Service, COP Bright Oduro has defended the sale of forms by security services.
According to him, the GHc100 being charged for the forms are “on the low side”.
In furtherance, the Former CID Boss was of the view that the selling of forms was necessary as it serves as a means for the security services to generate income internally.
While speaking on Accra-based Classfm, COP Oduro said; “The GHS100 is even, I think, on the low side”.
“These large numbers that have applied for the police cannot all be handled in Accra here, so I’m sure wherever you are, the region from which you applied, you’ll have to attend body selection and officers are going there to do body selection and to screen and vet them and I’m sure it is part of this charge that they are going to use.”
“I don t know whether they [police] are not being given some subventions or they are not being given money to run some of these things because all these things should come from central government and I don’t know if they have not been given money, so, if they have not been given money for this kind of recruitment process then of course they need to fund, they need to find means of doing this themselves and so part of this money I’m sure is going to be used to cater for the officers or the police teams that will go round the country to do the screening, or vetting or recruitment”, he added.
