The Youth Employment Agency (YEA) announces 40% increase in allowance for Community Protection Assistants (CPA).This will significantly raise the CPAs’ allowance from GH¢400.00 to GH¢560.00.
The announcement was made by the Deputy Chief Officer of YEA, in-Charge of Operations, Alhaji Bashiru Abraham, during a graduation ceremony of the CPAs at the Nation Police Training School at Tesano in Accra, on Monday, this week.
He said the Agency is also committed to ensuring that the recruitment of 35,700 youths by the year 2023 was achieved.
Mr. Bashiru explained that about 200 of the youth to be hired will serve as Community Nurse Assistants – 2,000 as Prison Officer Assistants – with 3,000 others being engaged in Youth in Fire Service.
An additional 700 youth with artisanal skills would also be recruited, as part of an arrangement signed by the YEA and a German company.
He disclosed that the CEO of the Agency was working towards entering a similar agreement with the Ekumfi Fruits and Juice Limited, as well as the Sugar factory, all in the Central region.
The graduation saw the passing out of 1,525 CPAs, drawn from the Central, Greater Accra and Western regions.
A total of 5,000 CPAs which formed part of the targeted 15,000 CPAs graduated yesterday from five police schools across the country.
The CPAs underwent a-week training and were taking through subjects including community policing, traffic management, client care, criminal law, criminal procedure, criminal investigation and preservation of evidence.
The others are human rights, basic officer skills, public order management, crime prevention methods, basic education on terrorism, domestic violence, ethics and code of conduct for law enforcement officials, child trafficking and report writing.
The deputy CEO urged the CPAs warned them not to act as a mainstream police officers or allot official titles to themselves.
He cautioned that the Agency would not hesitate to remove anybody who acts outwardly against the ethics of their training.
Address by NPTS Commanding Officer
The Commanding Officer of the National Police Training School, Chief Superintendent (CS) Samuel Asiedu Okanta described the one-week training as intensive programme to equip the CPAs with the requisite knowledge and skills required to enable them function effectively.
He said skills acquisition is very important for human capital capacity building since “human resources can only perform effectively to the expectation of clients through tailored training and development in line with international standards and best practices.”
Okanta advised that the CPAs to be disciplined and civil in their dealings with the public.”You are to assist police to maintain law and order and win the hearts and minds of people whom we are mandated to serve with honour and integrity.
“You should respect and protect human dignity and maintaining and upholding human rights of persons you will come across in the course of performing your duties as CPA personnel,” he said.
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