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The Director General of Police Human Resource and Administration, Commissioner of Police (COP) Patrick Eden Timbillah has been interdicted and put under house arrest rendering him incommunicado in connection with the massive Police recruitment scandal which has hit the country like a thunderbolt.

In a shocking twist of fate, COP Timbillah incidentally held a press conference last week and chided the victims for using unapproved means to enter into the Police administration but charged that, "Every Police Officer found to have been involved in the Police recruitment scam will not be shielded”.

The New Crusading GUIDE has in its possession documents and text messages of correspondence allegedly between COP Patrick Timbillah and some of the victims.

One of the documents has COP Timbillah as the one who signed and issued the letter of ‘Offer of Enlistment Into The Ghana Police Service’, recruiting the prospective applicants into the service.

In the said letter dated 13th February 2015, which was attached to the Prospectus for the Police Recruits, COP Timbillah stated that he was directed by the Inspector General of Police to appoint them into the Ghana Police Service as Police Recruits.

The letter further directed the recruits to report to the Officer Commanding Police Training School at Koforidua on Saturday 28th February 2015 to undergo a minimum of six months Basic Police Training.

"While on training, you will be paid an approval allowance based on the current salary structure of the Police Service. To facilitate the opening of a bank account, you will be requested to bring along a valid National Identity Card i.e. a drivers license, voter ID card or travelling passport," he directed.

The appointment/recruitment letter, this paper has gathered, was issued after huge sums of money was paid by some of the recruits, to COP Patrick Timbillah who requested for the said money before allowing them acquire jobs within the Ghana Police Service.

COP Patrick Timbillah, who after allegedly exchanging several text messages with one of the agents (name withheld) requested for the payment of the monies in time so he could facilitate their processes for them to meet the deadline.
The agent thus credited COP Patrick Timbillah's Ghana Commercial Bank Account, No. 1181120007220, with an amount of Ten Thousand Ghana Cedis (GH¢10,000) on 25th February 2015.

The money was deposited at the Shiashie Branch of the GCB. This paper has been told that several deposits of different sums were deposited into his account for the same purpose.

Recruitment lists in possession of this paper indicated that in Bolgatanga 136 have been recruited, Accra 108, Kumasi 111, Koforidua 134 and Ho 135.

All these recruits, according to information have paid between GH¢3,000 and GH¢4,000 each just to join the service.
More than half of these people allegedly paid their money to either COP Timbillah through the bank or through his assigns, this paper gathered. The other group also allegedly paid their monies to other yet-to-be named Police officers.

Below is the transaction document: