The Ghana Prisons Service from Monday, August 1 begins the next phase in its recruitment drive.

The exercise will end on Friday, August 5, after which the shortlisted applicants will go through body drills and verification of documents.

The Prisons Service extended the deadline to receive applications by one week to ensure all applications were received.

"What we are starting on Monday is with those who have been selected by the computer after initial screening across the country. You must have your certificates and then you go through an examination and an interview," PRO for the Ghana Prisons Service, DSP Vitalis Aryeh told Joy News.

The successful applicants then go through a body selection and anyone who passes this stage is qualified to be a prisons officer. 

He said they had as many as 22,00 applicants but was quick to add that, "What we are doing now is that anybody who did not have qualified attached to their slip, you are not taking part."

Some 10,000 people were shortlisted and they will be going through the next stage on Monday. 

DSP Aryeh urges those who were assured that they have qualified but have not received any text message from the Ghana Prisons Service to come along with the paper that indicates that they have been selected. 

He, however, said the Service is keeping an eye on the process to prevent any fraudulent entry.

"Those people who are not qualified and they come in they would be arrested there and then and be prosecuted because per what we have, everybody should have gone through formal education in which your bio-data is with a particular center," DSP Aryeh said. 

"We have all those documents with us so security is very up so anybody who is not qualified cannot come," he said adding that officers have also been cautioned not to engage themselves in helping anyone who is not qualified as they risk being sacked from the Service.