10,000 Recruits in Training for Police, Fire, Prisons, GIS
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10,000 Recruits Already in Training Under Police, Fire, Prisons, GIS Drive – Interior Minister
Ghana’s latest security services recruitment drive is already bearing fruit. According to the Minister for the Interior, Muntaka Mohammed-Mubarak, the first batch of 10,000 successful applicants to the Police, Fire, Prisons, and Immigration Services is currently undergoing training.
A second batch is already lined up. Muntaka says another 10,000 recruits will begin training next year, pulled from the same pool of successful applicants.
He shared these updates during his appearance at the Government Accountability Series in Accra on Monday, August 24.
Not everyone who applied made it through. Back in July, Muntaka gave Parliament’s Assurances Committee a closer look at what happens during the medical screening stage of recruitment — and one detail stood out.
Roughly 1,300 applicants tested positive for HIV during the mandatory medical exams. That screening, he explained, is a standard part of vetting candidates for fitness and health before they’re enlisted.
What happens next is where it gets sensitive. Muntaka said the recruitment team deliberately avoids telling disqualified applicants the exact medical reason behind their rejection, especially for something as personal as an HIV diagnosis.
In the recent recruitment, we have about 1,300 or so that were on HIV, and they said, can you imagine sending somebody the results that you have HIV? I mean, that’s not the procedure. The person has to go through some orientation, he said.
Instead of a blunt rejection letter, disqualified applicants are given a contact they can reach out to. Anyone curious about why they didn’t qualify can call that line and get walked through it properly.
One of the things we did was that when you get disqualified, you are given a contact to reach out to. If you are interested in knowing the details, then when you call, they assist you to let you know, Muntaka explained.
He also pointed out something worth remembering: not every disqualifying condition is permanent. Some are treatable, which means applicants who fall short this time around could still have a shot in future recruitment rounds provided they get the right counselling and care first.
Interestingly, some of the things that we realise are treatable, so people need to know and then also get treatment so that in subsequent recruitments they could join, he said.
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