The Police Administration will today submit the docket on investigations into the recruitment scam to the office of the Attorney-General and Minister of Justice today for advice.
The special task force set up by the Inspector-General of Police (IGP) to investigate the recent police recruitment fraud submitted its investigation report to the Police Administration last Friday.
The report of the special taskforce, headed by the Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Mohammed Alhassan, was submitted to the Police Council on Friday for action.
Sources told The Finder that the office of the Attorney-General and Minister of Justice would advice as to which of the suspects would be used as prosecution witnesses and which of them would be prosecuted.
According to the source, the police would only go to court based on the advice from the office of the Attorney-General and Minister of Justice.
The task force investigated Commissioner of Police (COP) Patrick Timbillah, who has been interdicted, and 13 others implicated as suspects in the scam.
The 13 others include two other police personnel and 11 civilians.
Background
On March 1, 2014, news broke that hundreds of young men and women had turned up at five police training depots for enlistment in the Ghana Police Service but left disappointed after they found out it was a scam.
It was found that their recruitment letters, which had the signature of COP Timbillah, were fake and that the purported enlistment was a fraud.
The police had a difficult time driving away the victims, most of them university graduates, who had gone to the Kumasi, Koforidua, Pwalugu, Accra and Ho Police depots with their luggage to begin the training.
The victims were said to have paid money ranging from GH¢2,000 to GH¢3,500 to the fraudsters.
The police have since arrested 14 people, including two policemen, as part of investigations to unmask the people behind the latest police recruitment scam.
Two suspects - Aisha Asumda, alias Aisha Boku Masi, a 36-year-old shea butter seller, suspected to have played a key role in the scam, and her accomplice, Alifa Adams - were arrested at Tesano and Adenta respectively following a tip-off.
The five other suspects include Amos Brown, 40, a radio presenter; General Corporal Gideon Sarpong of the Visibility Unit, Takoradi; Constable Ruth Agyiri, 27, Central Police Station, Koforidua.
The rest are Pastor Paul Danso from Tarkwa and Richard Harrison, 30.
Amos Brown, who was arrested on March 4, 2015 in Takoradi, had allegedly collected various sums of money from about 40 people in the Takoradi area under the pretext of helping them to be enlisted in the Police Service.
The police said Pastor Danso was arrested at Tarkwa Atuabo for collecting various sums of money from people in Atuabo and its environs to get them enlisted. He mentioned the name of General Corporal Sarpong as the one who directed him to collect the money.
Harrison and PW Constable Agyiri were arrested at Adentan and Koforidua respectively for collecting money from people to get them enlisted.
Two bank accounts said to belong to COP Patrick Timbillah were frozen, pending the conclusion of investigations into his involvement in a recruitment scam.
COP Patrick Timbillah is alleged to be operating two private accounts totalling about GH?1 million.
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