YEA to sign MOU with the Ghana Police service to recruit 10 percent of CPA personnel into the mainstream policing - Head of Cooperate Affairs

The head of Cooperate Affairs at the Youth Employment Agency, Mr. Kwasi Afiriyie asserted that the agency in due time will sign a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the Ghana Police service to absorb 10 percent of Community Police Assistance (CPA) into mainstream policing.

He disclosed this in an interview with a Wenchi-based Radio West Africa monitored by soireenews.com on the sidelines of the Agency announced the beneficiary's service of engagement officially ends on 3the 1st of this month August,2022.

Mr... Kwasi Afiriyie was optimistic that the trainees who were recruited under the security module of the Youth Employment Agency (YEA) to assist personnel of the Ghana Police Service helped the service in checking criminal activities and maintaining law and order in the communities they served.

It will be wise to absorb 10 percent of these trainees into stream policing, we are not saying that the Ghana Police Service should absorb all of them but at least they should give us a 10 percent quota he asserted.

The former CEO of YEA Mr. Justice Frimpong Kodua has started the process of getting them into mainstream policing, Mr. Kofi Agyapong the new CEO is also continuing the conversation with the Inspector General of Police to absorb 10 percent of CPA personnel into the mainstream policing he said.

He added that the former CEO has hastened several petitions to the IGP to absorb a 10 percent quota for the Agency security module, Mr. Kofi Agyapong will also follow the process to make sure to get positive results.