Police Service ranked most corrupt institution in Ghana

In the most recent study performed by the Ghana Statistical Service alongside other stakeholders in the fight against corruption, the Ghana Police Service came out as the most corrupt institution among the 23 other institutions sampled.

This information was found in the study “Corruption in Ghana, Peoples Experiences and View.”

The survey’s main objective is to expose corrupt institutions and provide information that will inform the development of policies aimed at preventing corruption from starting.

More than 17.4 million bribes were paid in 2021, according to the poll, with police officers coming in first place with a 53.2 percent acceptance rate.

The Ghana Immigration Service Officers and GRA customs officers come next, at 37.4% and 33.6% respectively, while elected government representatives are at the bottom of the list at 2.9%.

According to the survey, people with the highest level of (tertiary) education were 1.6 times more likely to have paid a bribe than people with no formal education.

Also, ten out of the 16 administrative regions recorded a prevalence of bribery higher than the national average.

There are, however, sizable variations across the 16 regions of the country.

The prevalence of bribery in the Bono East, Savannah and Volta regions, for example, is substantially lower than the national rate, at 11.8, 14.5 and 19.1 percent, respectively.

Also in the Western North, Ahafo and North East regions, bribery is substantially higher, at 53.4, 47.0 and 41.9 percent, respectively.