The Western Regional Police Command has arrested a 40-year-old man for his alleged involvement in the fraudulent police recruitment exercise.

The suspect, Amos Kofi Brown, also known as Ogyaframa claimed he is a Marketing Manager of Radio Silver, a private radio station in Sekondi.

According to the police, the suspect managed to dupe the unsuspecting victims of monies totaling about GH¢160, 000.00.

The police explained that the he purportedly collected GH¢4,000.00 from each applicants after issuing them with fake recruitment letters.

The police said the suspect claimed that so far about 40 people paid the recruitment fee totalling GH¢160, 000.00.

Briefing journalists in Sekondi, the Western Regional Police Commander, DCOP Isaac Alex Quainoo, noted that the suspect was arrested on March 3, 2015.

He said on that day, at about 1700 hours, personnel of the Regional Criminal Investigations Department of the Ghana Police Service had information that the suspect was collecting monies from unsuspecting youth in the Metropolis.

The Commander noted that Amos Kofi Brown was collecting the monies under the pretext of recruiting them into the Ghana Police Service.

He said the team proceeded to the suspect's house at Bakaekyir near Sekondi and arrested him.

A search in his room revealed 16 photocopies of result slips, four Ghana Police appointment letters and prospectus as well as six birth certificates.

The rest were a list of names of alleged victims, one Ghana Commercial Bank pay in slip, bearing the name Patrick Eden Timbilla, with a face value of GH¢11, 400.00 with account number 1181120007220, dated October 21, 2014.

"Eleven passport size photographs and brown envelope with the address and account number of Patrick Eden Timbilla were also found", the police Regional Boss added.

DCOP Quainoo said the suspect claimed ownership of the items found in his room and mentioned one Baba Alifa residing in the Central region as his accomplice.

The suspect also admitted having collected cash in the sum of GH¢4,000.00 from each of the forty people he purported recruited for the police.

The suspected also alleged that he delivered the total sum of the money to Alifa through vehicles that plied Takoradi and the Central region.

The police Commander assured that efforts were underway to apprehend the accomplice.

Meanwhile, Radio Silver has disowned the suspect.

The police commander mentioned that even though the suspect claimed to be an employee of Radio Silver, the management of the station said Kofi Brown does not work with the station.

He said the police is determined to investigate the issue since the suspect still claims to be the Marketing manager of the radio station and even drives one of the radio station's vehicles.