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Six former workers of the Ministry of the Interior have been honoured for their hard work and service to Ghana and the Civil Service. The six, who retired from active service between 2015 and 2018 were presented with Citations and gift tokens as their reward. Presenting the citations on Friday, September 20, 2019 in Accra, Mr. Ambrose Dery, Minister for the Interior, commended them for their hard work and services to Ghanaians in particular and to Mother Ghana in general and urged them to continue living exemplary lives as they are now role models for the future generations. “Working as a civil servant...

The Hon. Deputy Minister for the Interior, Mr. Henry Quartey on Thursday opened the Ghana Prisons Service 2019 Regional and Station Commanders conference in Accra. The conference themed, “Making Prison Enterprises Thrive: the Role of Commanders” had commanders from all the regional and district stations in the country converging in Accra to take stock of their operations and to find ways of bridging funding gaps in order to attain the transformational goals set out in the ten (10) year strategic plan of the Service. He noted that, despite the fact that the past few years have seen a significant...

The Minister for the Interior, Mr. Ambrose Dery has admonished citizens to be vigilant and report foreigners and strangers in their communities to the appropriate authorities even as they exhibit the proverbial Ghanaian hospitality towards them. This according to the Minister was for their own safety and security. The Minister made the appeal during a familiarization tour to the Upper East region on Tuesday, June 4, 2019 to visit the hot spots as well as talk to essential stakeholders such as the Regional Security Council and District Regional Security Council on heighten security resulting from the deteriorating situation in...

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...

Mr. Ambrose Dery, Minister for the Interior, today held discussions with his counterpart Minister from Spain Mr. Fernando Grande-Marlaska Gomez, in Accra, during the latter’s working visit to Ghana. The objective of the meeting was primarily to discuss the possibility of a cooperation agreement between the Kingdom of Spain and the Republic of Ghana in  the area of Security and Crime  Fighting and a convention on the transfer of sentenced persons between the two countries. The focus of the agreement amongst others would be in respect of human trafficking, drug trafficking, organised crime, terrorism etc.  Welcoming the delegation, Mr....