Is Police Report a Must For Graduates to Join Public Service?

As the University Students spend more time on roads than in Universities and staging protest marches, holding demonstrations and forcibly entering Government Establishments and creating mayhem, the government is currently looking at making police reports, attesting to their behaviour compulsory for graduates applying for jobs in the government and public sector in future. Government sources said, that the move was to ensure that those with prior convictions of vandalism or are accused of such will not be incorporated into the government work force.

Accordingly, those who apply for administrative, accounting, management,medical, engineering, and teaching professions, would have to produce a police report even if they had passed the eligibility examinations. Sources said that producing a police report for government jobs was mandatory many years ago but the practice was stopped afterwards. It was said that those who have prior police records of damaging property would not be considered for jobs in the government sector.