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The Youth Employment Agency (YEA) has kick- started a process for recruitment of some fifteen thousand (15000) unemployed Ghanaian youth nationwide as Community Protection Assistants (CPAs) under a working collaboration with the Ghana Police Service (GPS).

This is in pursuance of the Agency’s mandate to create jobs for the unemployed youth of the country and also to augment the Ghana Police Service in preventive and social community policing across the country.

The Chief Executive Officer of the Agency, Mr. Kofi Baah Agyepong, who is championing an agenda to make the Agency the base of employment among all sectors of the economy, believes that empowering young people through the creation of stopgap measures, promotion of skills training and entrepreneurship is a major means of reducing unemployment while ensuring economic growth.

On Wednesday, the Agency began a national physical examination exercise accross all the district offices of the country as part of a process to shortlist the first batch of 5000 applicants into the module.

Scores of young men and women who had trooped to the YEA district offices in all Regions were seen going through assessment of their heights, visual examination, physical appearance amongst others.

According to the CEO, Mr. Kofi Baah Agyepong, who embarked on a tour of some examination centres together with some members of his Management team, this is an opportune time to be recruited as a beneficiary of the Youth Employment Agency.

He assured the Beneficiaries of consistent flow of their stipends at the end of the month and a possible increase in the stipends.

What is more exciting for Mr. Agyepong and the beneficiaries is his commitment to ensuring that most of the beneficiaries with the requisite certification, skills and knowledge are drafted into the mainstream Police service during their enlistment.

"You are undergoing screening for Body Selection and Physical examinations as part of the eligibility criteria for the recruitment exercise because, this time around we want to ensure that those of you who will perform will be absorbed into the Ghana Police Service as the official quota of the Agency", Mr Agyepong told the potential beneficiaries.