YEA Recruits 15000 Youth As Community Protection Assistants In Partnership With Ghana Police Service | General News

The Youth Employment Agency (YEA) has kick-started a course of for recruitment of some fifteen thousand (15000) unemployed Ghanaian youth nationwide as Community Protection Assistants (CPAs) beneath a working collaboration with the Ghana Police Service (GPS).

This is in pursuance of the Agency's mandate to create jobs for the unemployed youth of the nation and in addition to enhance the Ghana Police Service in preventive and social group policing throughout the nation.

The Chief Executive Officer of the Agency, Mr. Kofi Baah Agyepong, who's championing an agenda to make the Agency the bottom of employment amongst all sectors of the financial system, believes that empowering younger individuals by means of the creation of stopgap measures, promotion of expertise coaching and entrepreneurship is a serious technique of decreasing unemployment whereas making certain financial development.

On Wednesday, the Agency started a nationwide bodily examination train accross all of the district workplaces of the nation as a part of a course of to shortlist the primary batch of 5000 candidates into the module.

Scores of younger women and men who had trooped to the YEA district workplaces in all Regions have been seen going by means of evaluation of their heights, visible examination, bodily look amongst others.

According to the CEO, Mr. Kofi Baah Agyepong, who launched into a tour of some examination facilities along with some members of his Management staff, that is an opportune time to be recruited as a beneficiary of the Youth Employment Agency.

He assured the Beneficiaries of constant move of their stipends on the finish of the month and a attainable enhance within the stipends.

What is extra thrilling for Mr. Agyepong and the beneficiaries is his dedication to making sure that a lot of the beneficiaries with the requisite certification, expertise and information are drafted into the mainstream Police service throughout their enlistment.

"You are undergoing screening for Body Selection and Physical examinations as part of the eligibility criteria for the recruitment exercise because, this time around we want to ensure that those of you who will perform will be absorbed into the Ghana Police Service as the official quota of the Agency", Mr Agyepong informed the potential beneficiaries.

The screening train shall be adopted by a coaching program to be rolled out in three phases for the 15000 profitable candidates.

Each section could have a batch of 5000 profitable candidates bear the obligatory three weeks intensive coaching by the Ghana Police Service on the numerous Police Training Colleges throughout the nation.

Recruitment of those 15000 Community Protection Assistants is approaching the heels of the passing out of 6000 youth beneath the Community Health Workers (CHWs) module a fortnight in the past.

For Mr Agyepong, creation of sustainable applications and jobs was high on his agenda as CEO of the YEA and particularly on this interval of financial hardships, it's his imaginative and prescient to scale back the burden of Ghanaians by creating lots of jobs to solidify President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo's a million jobs agenda.

He additionally hoped to collaborate extra successfully with the personal sector in pursuit of creating YEA the pivot of jobs creation in Ghana.