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The Ghana Prisons Service (GPS) has set up a Unit to train and breed sniffer dogs to help detect contraband goods in the country’s prisons. The new K9 unit of the Service would aid the manual search for mobile phones, narcotic drugs, money and alcohol, among others, being smuggled to...
The Paramount Chief of Aowin Traditional Area, Beyeeman Tano Kwaw Benbuin III, has released a 573.65 acres of land to the Ghana Prisons Service for the construction of an ultra-modern Prison facility. The Director-General of Prisons, Mr. Isaac Kofi Egyir expressed his profound gratitude to the Chief and people of...
YARA Ghana Limited, a leading fertilizer manufacturer in Africa, has donated 625 bags of Ammonia and NPK fertilizers to the Ghana Prisons Service. Presenting the items yesterday at the premises of the company in Tema, the West Africa Regional Director of Yara Ghana Limited, Mr. Danquah Addo- Yobo, expressed the...
Fifty (50) deserving officers of the Bono, Ahafo and Bono East Regional command of the Ghana Prisons Service, were honoured with the Long Service and Good Conduct medal awards at a ceremony last Wednesday at the Sunyani Central Prison canteen. The Long Service and Good Conduct medal is an award...
A total of nineteen members of Prisons Officers Wives Association (PROWA) in the Bono Region have undergone an eight-week skills training programme organized by the military high command for spouses of Military personnel. The skills training programmme which began on 4th June, 2022 and ended on 5th August, 2022 at...
A short ceremony was held yesterday to commission a smart ICT laboratory for the Senior Correctional Centre (SCC). This follows the refurbishment and conversion of the Centre’s ICT laboratory into a smart laboratory by the beauty queen of TV3’s 2021 Ghana’s Most Beautiful reality show, Miss Benedicta Sarfoa Asamoah. The...
The President of the Republic, H. E. Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has awarded the late Senior Chief Officer (SCO), Albert Henry Lutterodt a posthumous promotion to the rank of Assistant Superintendent of Prisons. According to H. E. Nana Akufo-Addo, the late Senior Chief Officer was promoted in recognition of his...
A one-day seminar has been held for officers of Koforidua Local Prison. The seminar, which was at the instance of the Officer-in-Charge (OIC), Assistant Director Prisons (ADP) Christopher Hayibor was held at the Koforidua Prison on Friday July 8, 2022 after the usual Padre’s Hour. Introducing the facilitator, the coordinator...
Prison officers and some other professionals engaged pupils of Kwabenya Atomic Basic 5 Junior High School on career guidance at the school premises on Friday 10th June, 2022. The pupils of the School displayed various professional uniforms to mark their 'Career Day' celebration and also expressed their desire to become...
The African Correctional Services Association (ACSA) has held its Executive and the 6th biannual conference planning committee meetings in Accra, Ghana. The 5-day meetings which started on Monday, 13th June, 2022 with a-3-day session by the planning committee and continued with the executive committee meeting from Wednesday, 25th June 2022,...
