GIS commissions Document Fraud Office for middle, northern belts
The office would ensure that users of fraudulent documents would be brought to the barest minimum, and perpetrators arrested
The Ghana Immigration Service (GIS) has commissioned its first regional Document Fraud Office (DFO) at the Jubilee Park in Kumasi.
The DFO will primarily serve the middle and northern belts, according to officials, and thus expand the scope of work of officials of GIS who hitherto relied on the Document Fraud Expertise Centre in Accra for the purpose of verifying the authenticity of documents.
Speaking at the event, Deputy Interior Minister, Naana Eyiah Quansah, noted that the office would ensure that users of fraudulent documents would be brought to the barest minimum, and perpetrators arrested and brought to book.
“If Ghana is to maintain its open economy and status as one of the favourable destinations for foreign direct investment, all of us including the government and the wider society must work together to combat fraud and economic crime generally," she said.
The DFEC of the Ghana Immigration Service was established in 2010 to train agents in document fraud.
It also serves as a back office for all document fraud identification matters in the country and has strong working relationship with almost all the EU Embassies in Ghana and works closely with all their Immigration Liaison Officers and Police Attaches.
