IGP Yohuno 'doubles' police academy intake for officers for Course 54
Christian Tetteh Yohuno, the Inspector General of Police (IGP), has doubled the Police Academy intake for Police Cadet Officer Course 54 to a record number of 700 for this year. The Police Academy has been admitting an average of 300 to 400 for each intake in the past. This move marks the largest single cadet admission in the history of the academy.
Course 51 admitted 308 officers, Course 52 admitted 344 officers, and Course 53 admitted 432 officers. The expansion of Course 54 has activated both residential and non-residential training models to accommodate the more than 700 cadet officers. The police administration's move was aimed at ensuring that accommodation challenges do not deny qualified Chief Inspectors the opportunity to rise into senior leadership positions. Some critics have said the arrangement was unusual, but sources within the police administration said that there is absolutely nothing new about the residential and non-residential model. Under retired IGP Paul Tawiah Quaye in 2011, both residential and non-residential models were adopted, while retired IGP P.K. Acheampong also distributed cadet officers across training institutions in Accra, Winneba and Pwalugu. The immediate past IGP (Dr George Akuffo Dampare) also employed both residential and non-residential models during cadet training exercises.
For the first time under the current administration, all 7,500 Chief Inspectors in the service were allowed to sit for the Police Academy Entrance Examination. Following the amnesty granted by the President to the candidates who scored between 50 and 52 marks, in addition to those who scored between 53 and 75 marks, a total of 1,063 officers successfully qualified for admission. The police administration further assured
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IGP Christian Tetteh Yohuno has reportedly doubled the Police Academy intake for the Police Cadet Officer Course 54. The move to expand the program has activated both residential and non-residential training models - but some critics are questioning the arrangement.
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