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The National Service Scheme (NSS) has disclosed that it will facilitate the entry into the Ghana Police Service of National Service personnel who have served as traffic wardens and have applied to join the law enforcement body.

The Police Administration has said it will not give preferential treatment to this group of personnel as it prepares to recruit personnel into the Service.

The police service said it is giving equal opportunity to all interested persons hence its decision to open the sale of its application vouchers to the public.

The deployment of National Service Personnel to direct road traffic in support of the Motor Traffic and Transport Unit of the Ghana Police Service started during the year 2013-2014.

The personnel who work alongside the police are given special training to enable them perform their duties efficiently. The initiative which forms part of the National Service Scheme’s long term strategic greatly reduces traffic congestion in major cities of the country.

These persons service to the state has got many thinking that they’ll have automatic entry into the police service.

However, the Director of Public Affairs of the Police Service Superintendent Cephas Arthur insists that their collaboration with the police is no guarantee of their entry into the service.

“We are giving equal opportunity to everyone that is why even though we’ll not take too many personnel into service, we allowed anyone interested to buy the forms. It’s a struggle; whoever has a strong foot forward eventually gets access. In as much as they helped us work for a year, none will be given priority treatment; they are competing evenly with others.

“The only advantage any of them interested in being a police officer will have is when there’s a police exams to be written and because they have worked with the service they may have a better understanding and knowledge of police work. That is the edge they may have over the others.”

But speaking on TV 3 News Consumer Watch programme on Sunday, the Executive Director of the Scheme, Dr Kpessah Whyte stated that as an institution that got the personnel interested in this particular module, it is fair to say that once they’ve applied it is fair to put in a word for them so they could be employed.

“It will even be more cost effective for the Police Service because these individuals have been trained by the Police Service, they have socialized with the police, they have become ambassadors of the Police service. The Police service has said because of the efforts of these individuals we had lesser incidents of vehicular accidents during last year’s Christmas Yes! We’ll facilitate for them to be considered if we are allowed”