COP Patrick Timbillah
The interdicted Director-General in-charge of Human Resource Development at the Ghana Police Service, COP Patrick Timbillah, has been sacked in connection with the 2015 police recruitment scandal.
Public Affairs Director of the Ghana Police Service, Supt. Cephas Arthur, who could not confirm the news, said that “I suspect some communication may have been sent to him, but I cannot confirm the details.”
COP Timbillah’s sacking follows the completion of investigations into the scam in which he and a few other officers were implicated in March 2015 following which an internal service inquiry was started against him.
Immediately after his arrest and interdiction, DCOP David Nenyi Ampah-Bennin, Director General in-charge of public affairs of the Ghana Police Service, told the media that investigations into the affair could be over in about a week after which prosecutions would begin.
It has, however, taken almost two years for the investigations and report to be ready.
Seven people were arrested by the police in connection with the scam.
They include two police officers Constable Ruth Agyiri, 27, of the Central Police Station in Koforidua, who allegedly swindled a victim of GH?1500 and Corporal Gideon Sarpong.
The others are a radio presenter of Silver Radio Amos Brown, 40, who, according to Ampah-Bennin, took various sums from over 40 persons to enlist them in the police service.
Richard Harrison, 30, who duped people to the tune of over GH?4200 and a pastor Paul Danso were implicated in the scam.
Ghnews360.com