Special Prosecutor probes corruption into police recruitment

The Office of the Special Prosecutor (OSP) says it has opened full scale investigations into suspected corruption and corruption-related offences within the recruitment of officers into the Ghana Police Service.

A statement signed by the Special Prosecutor, Kissi Agyebeng, said the investigations will border on “the use of office for profit, abuse of office, abuse of power, favoritism, nepotism, victimization and the selection of unqualified persons” in the recruitment processes.

“The investigations target specific cases of alleged corruption and corruption-related offences of the use of Office for profit, abuse of Office, abuse of power, favoritism, nepotism, victimization and the selection of unqualified persons,” the Office made it known in a statement.