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A pulling-out ceremony has been held  in honour of Dr. Albert Brown Gaisie, immediate past Chief Fire Officer of the Ghana National Fire Service at the GNFS Headquarters. The pull-out ceremony is a symbolic ceremony to signify the retirement of an Officer usually of Higher Ranking. Dr. Gaisie’s working experience as a Fire Man spans over 29 years, during which he held many positions and commands including Ag. Chief Fire Officer from October 2010 to March 2011 and as Chief Fire Officer from December 2014 to 2017. Today’s  pulling-out ceremony is the first time a retired Chief Fire Officer...

Mr. Ambrose Dery, the Minister of the Interior on Friday said government together with the Prisons Council is looking at the non-custodial sentencing regime to focus more on the rehabilitation aspect of the Prisons. He said the prisons was a very important institute, which needed help to be able to provide good rehabilitation and skills training and development to inmates of the country’s prisons. Mr. Dery was speaking at the commissioning of the Ghana Prisons Service Headquarters Archway and Guard Post in Accra. The Archway and Guard Post was built by the Service with support from Glico Life Company...

Three hundred and ninety-eight Ghana National Fire Service recruits have passed out at the Fire Academy and Training School of the Ghana National Fire Service (GNFS) in Accra. The recruits, comprising of ninety nine fire women and two hundred and ninety-nine fire men had successfully completed the Recruit Course 48, which exposed the Senior High School, Technical/Vocational and City and Guilds school recruits to the rudiments of the fire-fighting profession. Mr. Ambrose Dery, Minister for the Interior, who reviewed the parade mounted by the recruits, said security was one of the most essential needs of every country, of which...

By Iddi Yire, GNA Accra, Mar 20, GNA – The Ministry for the Interior is poised to ensuring internal security, a stable and peaceful environment for sustainable national development. Mr Ambrose Dery, the Interior Minister said the Ministry would continue to monitor and evaluate its policies and regulate programmes relating to the protection of life and property, disaster prevention and mitigation, immigration, crime control, prevention and detection, safe custody, reformation and rehabilitation of prisoners.  “The Ministry will continue to work hard to create the needed secure and peaceful environment conducive for job creation to meet the expectation of our...

The Deputy Minister for the Interior, Hon. Henry Quartey, on Wednesday, March 13, 2019,   commissioned an ultra-modern fire station for the Ghana National Fire Service on the Spintex Road near Kasapreko Company Limited. The Station, which was constructed at a cost of Four Hundred Thousand cedis (GHC 400,000.00) by Kasapreko Company Limited as part of it’s cooperate social responsibility and equipped with firefighting equipment and personnel by the Ghana National Fire service is expected to serve the Spintex community and other adjoining communities. In a speech read on his behalf, the Minister for the Interior emphasized the need for...

A ten (10) Member Committee has been inaugurated to develop a Comprehensive Framework for Refocusing National Earthquake Preparedness and Response within the country. The Committee is expected to identify and outline key measures that must be undertaken by relevant Agencies to empower  communities to be well prepared and resilient for reduction of seismic risk; outline other response measures required by stakeholders/agencies in the event of an earthquake, to include the recovery phase; and evaluate the capacities of relevant bodies mandated with national response to identify resource gaps and recommend measures to augment their capabilities towards effective response Additionally the...