Fidelity Bank Partners with GPS to Train Staff on Forensics

We partnered with the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of the Ghana Police Service (GPS) to provide forensic training for 50 bank staff who in turn will train other frontline and control function staff. We are the first bank in Ghana to provide our staff with such forensic training.

The forensic training, conducted by the CID of the Ghana Police, includes critical areas like signature comparison and analysis, fingerprint examination and analysis as well as security paper forgery detection.

Our Head of Financial Crime Management, Ransford Nana Addo Jnr., speaking on the motive behind this training revealed that, "This initiative is geared towards increasing our resilience to fight crime and also to improve our control environment. As a bank that prioritizes customer safety in delivering our services, we believe this is a good step as it will complement the robust controls that we already have in place."

In his remarks at the opening ceremony for the 3-day training, the Director General of the Criminal Investigation Department of the Ghana Police Service, COP Isaac Ken Yeboah commended us for taking the initiative to go above and beyond the average security measures in our delivery of financial services.

"I am very impressed with the initiative taken by Fidelity Bank Ghana. We encourage all financial institutions to take a cue from what Fidelity Bank is providing to its staff so that collectively we fight crime more effectively," COP Isaac Ken Yeboah added.

Our collaboration with the Ghana Police Service to undertake this forensic training for our staff is a demonstration of our commitment to protecting the interests of our customers and other stakeholders.