Cameroon arrest 8 police officers

8 police officers caught in a scam crime and extortion of candidates who applied for the recent police entrance examination were arrested on Saturday. The officers have been charged with extortion of money from dozens of candidates vying to join the police force.

Cameroon Concord has learnt from highly placed government officials in Yaoundé that over four thousand applicants have been scammed and made to purchase fake tickets at the National Police Academy by the arrested police officers. A police officer even used the surname of the Delegate General for National Security to prove to some of the candidates that he was the Private Secretary to Mbarga Nguele, the national police boss. Those arrested included two police commissioners and 2 female constables.