Over 6,000 security service applicants fail first-ever drug screening - NACOC
Brigadier General Maxwell Obuba Mantey, Director-General of the Narcotics Control Commission (NACOC), disclosed that over 6,000 applicants seeking recruitment into the country's security services failed mandatory drug screening for the first time this year. These applicants, representing about seven per cent of all candidates screened for recruitment into the Ghana Police Service, Ghana Prisons Service, Ghana National Fire Service, and the Ghana Ambulance Service, tested positive for substances such as cannabis, cocaine, methamphetamine, opiates, and tramadol.
Brig. Gen. Mantey stated that the outcome called for sustained preventive interventions to protect the youth from substance abuse, adding, "If we cannot secure the people who guard our streets, how do we secure the country? This is not a cause for despair. It is a call for urgent, systematic action." He made these remarks at the national commemoration of the International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking held in Accra last Friday, June 26, on the theme: "The World Drug Problem: Persisting Issues, New Challenges, Innovative Responses".
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Ghana's security services recently conducted their first-ever mandatory drug screening for applicants. This initiative aimed to ensure the integrity
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