The Ghana Police Service has asserted there is no "ongoing recruitment exercise" in the service.

The GPS issued a statement to this effect on Facebook, Tuesday night, July 16, 2024.

The Dr George Akuffo Dampare-led service challenged "comments attributed" to Mr Peter Lanchene Toobu, the Member of Parliament for Wa West, that there is a recruitment drive ongoing "at the National Police Training School without any public announcement of the exercise".

"We wish to state that the Police Service has not commenced any exercise of such nature," the statement concluded.

Peter Toobu is a National Democratic Congress (NDC) MP and serves as a Member of the Interior and Defence Committee of Parliament.

He recently downplayed a reported backlog in the recruitment of personnel into Ghana's security agencies. According to him, assertions made by Interior Minister Henry Quartey regarding the backlog were entirely untrue.

Mr Toobu, during an interview on the Ghana Yensom morning show on Accra 100.5 FM, Monday, May 27, said he was well-informed about the recruitment processes within the security agencies: "As a member of the Interior and Defence Committee of Parliament, I am aware there is no backlog of recruitment."

He elaborated there is no backlog of recruitment for the Ghana Army, the Police Service, the Fire Service, or the Immigration Service. 

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The MP clarified while the Police Service did have a backlog, those recruits are currently undergoing training.

Mr Toobu criticised Minister Quartey's claims of a backlog, suggesting it could be a tactic to justify secret recruitment that might become evident in Minority Leader Casiel Ato Forson’s claims that all parliamentary candidates of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) have been allocated 30 slots each.

Peter Lanchene Toobu sternly warned "you don’t politicise the security sector in a democracy," adding it could destroy the country’s security fabric.