Police recruit pass out at Koforidua

Koforidua, March 30, GNA - The Police Administration has taken steps to purge itself of miscreants who may seek to denigrate its image especially in the run-up to the African Union summit to be held later in the year.

"We wish to state that acts that drag the name of the Police Service into disrepute will merit nothing but outright administrative sanctions", the Deputy Commissioner of Police in Charge of Finance, Mr Stephen Andoh-Kwofie, has said.

He said this when addressing the passing out ceremony of 100 general police recruits at Koforidua on Wednesday. Mr Andoh-Kwofie said the service would have "no room for criminals and people with ulterior motives" and that any person either in the service or joining it "to make money by extortion, bribery and other vices should reconsider their decision."

He said the Police Service was demanding of its men and women not to "associate themselves with deviants for the purpose of unlawful or unauthorized operations" since such "tendencies more often than not bring the name of the service into disrepute."

Mr Andoh-Kwofie told the new police personnel to adopt a positive attitude to work and exhibit the greatest professionalism as the nation prepares for the African Union summit in the second half of the year and the African Cup of Nations in January 2008.

Recruit Nyouvre Badul Hakeem was judged the overall best general policeman.