YEA Set To Employ 15,000 Community Policing Assistants

The Youth Employment Agency (YEA) has a strategic recruitment goal of hiring 15,000 Community Policing Assistants, according to Mr. Emmanuel Kwamena Quarshie, Volta Regional Director (CPAs).

The first class of 5,000, he claimed, had graduated with honors and was already employed in several areas.

5,000 Assistants graduated from six police training schools across the nation, according to Mr. Quarshie, who was addressing the passing out procession for the second intake of the 645 CPAs in Ho.

To that effect, he stated that the third group would also start receiving training in March of this year.

According to Mr. Quarshie, the recruitment of the CPAs was done to strengthen the Ghana Police Force and raise its visibility in the neighborhoods with the ultimate goal of upholding law and order, defending people’s lives and property, and improving safety and security in neighborhoods.

Other courses offered by the Agency, according to him, included Community Health Workers (CHW), Youth in Prison Service, and Youth in Sanitation. A course in youth entrepreneurship was also planned and would be implemented this year.

Youth in ICT, Youth in Coastal Sanitation, Community Education Teaching Assistants (CETA), and Youth in Agriculture and Afforestation, according to Mr. Quarshie, are other modules slated to start this year.

Mr. Quarshie asked the CPAs to represent YEA and the Ghana Police Service well in the community.