The Criminal Investigations Department of the Ghana Police Service says it has begun a process to push for testing the HIV status of HIV/AIDS campaigner Joyce Dzidzor Mensah.

Mrs. Mensah was on Thursday arrested and interrogated by the CID at its headquarters in Accra, she herself confirmed to Joy News.

Head of Public Relations at the CID ASP Joseph Benefo Darkwa told Joy News Joyce was invited for questioning following a complaint from the Ghana AIDS Commission.

The complaint follows a confession by Joyce that she had deceived the Commission about her HIV status, which got her a job as an AIDS Ambassador, ASP Darkwa said.

Last month, Mrs. Joyce Mensah claimed she had never been infected with the virus, despite parading as a carrier since 2007.

ASP Darkwa said the CID would need Joyce to assist it in order to unravel her true HIV status.

Lawyer for Joyce Dzidzor Mensah, Kojo Koranteng told Joy News his client has been undergoing psychological counselling but found time to respond to the police invitation Thursday morning.

Joyce Mensah was interrogated, made to write her statement and was granted bail, he recalled.

The police, he said, “wanted to know [the] same old story, whether she was positive or negative and what informed her decision that she posed to the media…how come you (Joyce) went to the Ghana AIDS Commission to claim you are positive?”

During the period she spent with the police CID, there was no intimidation or was she forced to do anything, Mr. Koranteng stated.

Even though the CID intends to conduct push for a court order to allow for a test on Joyce Mensah.

Lawyer for Joyce Dzidzor, Kojo Koranteng, said his client would avail herself for testing once a competent court of jurisdiction orders that.

Though he said his client was not charged, he discounted speculations that she could be charged with defrauding by false pretence.

Shedding more light on the issue, a private legal practitioner Justin Pwavra Teriwajah said if Joyce Mensah does not submit herself willingly to the test, the CID on its own cannot bind her to do so because that would be against her rights.

“The best thing to do is to go to court, get the court order. Once it is a court order no one can disobey, you have to go for the test, and that will help the police." he concluded.