296 NYEP RECRUITS TO HELP IN TRAFFIC CONTROL (SPREAD, DEC 18, 2010)

The Ghana Police Service has mobilised 296 personnel from the National Youth Employment Programme (NYEP) to support the Motor Traffic and Transport Unit (MTTU) to control traffic in Accra and Tema.
They have been trained under the community policing module of the NYEP and would be engaged by the Police Service for the next two years.
Forty-nine of the trained personnel, made up of 10 females and 39 males, have been posted to Tema while the rest have been stationed in Accra.
The Commander of the MTTU, Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP) Angwubutoge Awuni, who was in Tema to meet them, advised them to make discipline the hallmark of their work.
He said the police service needed disciplined people to be attached to the MTTU to help direct traffic especially during the Yuletide.
The MMTU boss noted that traffic had become a problem in the cities and stressed the need to have more hands to help make the roads safe for drivers, passengers and pedestrians.
ACP Awuni said some of the NYEP community policing personnel had been found to be habitual absentees when posted to duty points and warned that those who indulge in such behaviours would not be entertained.
He, however, said those found to be obedient and hardworking would be absorbed into the Police Service.
He advised them to be friendly to the public and said as peace officers, they were expected to maintain law and order.
He appealed to them to show commitment to their work and put up attitudes that would justify the confidence reposed in them.
The Tema Regional Police Commander, ACP Augustine Gyenning, asked the NYEP personnel to be mindful of the numerous road construction works going on in Tema, which has resulted in roadblocks and heavy traffic, and said they would need to work hard at the various road intersections to control vehicular movement.