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In pursuit of the mandate of the Ghana National Fire Service (GNFS), a 5 year strategic plan, aimed at modernizing the GNFS, has been developed to provide the framework for decision making and operations of  the Service in that regard. The plan, which was derived from the achievements of the GNFS’s Medium-Term Strategic Business Plan (2008-2012) will serve as the blueprint for the development of the service over the next five years (2019 – 2023). Launching the plan in Accra on Wednesday May 29, 2019, the Minister for the Interior, Mr. Ambrose Dery entreated the management and personnel of...

Forty (40) Senior Officers drawn from all the Regional Commands of the Ghana National Fire Service (GNFS) are scheduled to undergo further training in Malta. The training programme, is a continuation of the successful collaboration between the Ministry of the Interior and the Honorary Consulate of Malta in Ghana, which began in 2018 and culminated in twenty (25) officers receiving similar training in Malta in 2018. It is expected to enhance the capacities of the personnel in modernization of the service as part of the transformational agenda being pursued by the service. To this end, the first batch of...

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...