Ghana Police Service Aptitude Test Questions and Answers

Ghana Police Service Aptitude Test Scope & Curriculum Areas

The format of the Ghana Police Service aptitude test requires that you sit to write the Ghana Police Service aptitude test on a computer and at your nearest Ghana Police Service Careers Centre. Applicants who have successfully passed the body selection stage of the recruitment will be tested in the following areas:

• General knowledge about the Ghana Police Service
• Numeracy knowledge & Arithmetic reasoning
• Literacy knowledge
• General Science

Below are likely questions and answers you might encounter in your aptitude test. Study how these questions are asked and how they are answered to help you at this stage.

Ghana Police Service General knowledge Questions & Answers

Q1. What is the organization of the Ghana Police Service?
ANSWER: The Ghana Police Service is composed of the police general recruits and police officers.

Q2.When was the Police Service established?
ANSWER: It was established in 1894, the Institution of Police was formalized with the passing of the Police Ordinance which gave legal authority for the formation of a Civil Police Force which was known as the Gold Coast Police Force. In 1957 the Gold Coast Police Force was renamed to Ghana Police Service.

Q3.What is the Police Service command structure?
ANSWER: The Police command structure extends from the Minister of Interior in the government to commanders in the field. Police units are deployed in all towns and regions of Ghana

Q4.What is the structure of the Police?
ANSWER: The Ghana Police has 10 ranks for officers with the General of Police (IGP) being the highest rank. Below is the list of Police commissioned officers ranks:

• Inspector-General of Police (IGP)
• Deputy Inspector General (D/IGP)
• Commissioner of Police (COP)
• Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCOP)
• Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP)
• Chief Superintendent of Police (C/Supt)
• Superintendent (Supt)
• Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP)
• Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP)
• Chief Inspector

Q5.What equipment has the Ghana Police Service?

ANSWER: Equipment consists of older weapons of British, Brazilian, Swiss, Swedish, Israeli, and Finnish origin. The Ghanaian Police inventory gave the following equipment: FV-601 Saladin and EE-9 Cascavel reconnaissance vehicles; MOWAG Piranha armored personnel carriers; 81mm and 120mm mortars; 84mm recoilless launchers; and 14.5mm ZPU-4 and 23mm ZU-23-2 air defense guns.

Ghana Police Service General knowledge Questions & Answers For Ghana Police Service.

Q6.When was the Police established?

ANSWER: In 1894, the Institution of Police was formalized with the passing of the Police Ordinance which gave legal authority for the formation of a Civil Police Force which was known as the Gold Coast Police Force. In 1957 the Gold Coast Police Force was renamed to Ghana Police Service.

Q7.Who is the current Head of the Ghana Police Service?

ANSWER: George Akuffo Dampare is the current Inspector-General of Police.

Q8.What are the objectives of the Ghana Police Service?

ANSWER: The mission of the Police Service is to ensure crime prevention and detection, apprehension, and prosecution of offenders, consistent with the expectations of Ghanaians for safe, secure, and peaceful communities.

Q9.What are the aims and objectives of the Ghana Police Service?
ANSWER: The Police as it is now called has its motto “Service with Integrity”.

The objectives of the Police are:
1. Crime detection and prevention
2. Apprehension (arrest) and prosecution of offenders
3. Maintenance of law and order
4. Due enforcement of the law

Q10.When did Ghana gain independence?
ANSWER: 6 March 1957

Question: Who designed the Ghana National flag and in which year?
ANSWER: The Ghana flag was designed by Miss Theodosia Okoh. It was adopted in 1957 and was flown until 1962, and then reinstated in 1966. 

Numeracy knowledge & Arithmetic reasoning

Q1. Find the missing number in the following series: 234567 23456 ___?__ 234 23

A: 6
B: 2356
C: 2347
D: 2345
E: None of these

Q2. One container has 28 kilograms of flour and another has 4 kilograms. How many kilograms must be taken from one container, so each has an equal amount of flour?

A: 4
B: 12
C: 16
D: 24
E: None of these

Q3. Six pairs of shoe cost as much as 1 coat, 2 pairs of jeans cost as much as 3 pairs of shoes, and 4 pairs of socks cost as much as one pair of jeans. How many coats could I exchange for 64 pairs of socks?

A: 4
B: 1
C: 2
D: 3
E: None of these

Q4. The clock in my lounge room is 10 minutes slower than the clock on my phone, which is 6 minutes slow. My tram always leaves 6 minutes early, although it is scheduled for 8:55 am. It takes me 20 minutes to get to the tram stop. What time must I leave, according to my lounge room clock, in order to catch my tram?

A: 8:49 am
B: 8:35 am
C: 8:23 am
D: 8:29 am
E: None of these

Q5. A container of soft drinks was shared between four work teams of employees. The first team took 1/3 of the soft drink, the second team took ½ of what was left, and the remaining two teams shared the remaining soft drink equally between them. If there were originally 240 litres of soft drinks, how many litres of soft drinks did the third team get?

A: 20
B: 40
C: 80
D: 160
E: None of these

Q6. Working mothers who earn $30,000 or less per year receive a rebate on before and after school care of 75%, plus a school bonus of $6,000 that only applies to this category of earnings. Each dollar earned above this amount and up to $40,000 reduces the rebate to 55%, and for any amount above this, the rebate drops to 30%. There are three mothers – Jade earns $40,001, Emily earns $38,000 and Lucy earns $29,550. If the cost of before and after school care is $10,000 per year, what amount of money does the person have who has the least amount of money left after paying for before and after school care?

A: $33,000
B: $30,000
C: $40,001
D: $40,000
E: None of these

Q7. Find the missing number in the following series: 4 8__32 64 128

A: 24
B: 19
C: 16
D: 8
E: None of these

Q8. Find the missing number in the following series: __ 85 81 83 79 81 77

A: 89
B: 83
C: 87
D: 80
E: None of these

Q9. Percy rides his scooter to the station, which is 10 kilometers away. If Percy rides at a steady pace of 20 kilometers per hour, how many minutes will it take him to ride from home to the station?

A: 2
B: 4
C: 40
D: 30
E: None of these

Q10. If Bert had 3 cents more he would have twice as much as Georgia. If he had 4 cents less, he would have the same amount. How many cents does Bert have?

A: 4
B: 7
C: 11
D: 14
E: None of these

Q11. There are 72 apples on my tree at home; 38 are red, and the rest are green. I know 46 of the apples have worms in them, so I can’t use them for cooking. What is the maximum number of green apples I could have left to cook with?

A: 0
B: 8
C: 12
D: 26
E: None of these

Q12. Rebecca must give 5 out of every 6 dollars she earns each week to the tax department. If Rebecca gets to keep $10 this week, how much did she earn in total this week?

A: $30
B: $56
C: $50
D: $60
E: None of these

Q13. Find the missing number in the following series: 64 16 32 8?
A: 2
B: 8
C: 16
D: 32
E: None of these

Q14. If a piece of blueberry pie costs $4 and a piece of apple pie costs 50% more than a piece of blueberry pie, how much does a piece of apple pie cost?

A: $3
B: $2
C: $5
D: $6
E. None of the above.

Q15. Oliver has a box of toy cars, but he is not sure how many he has. If he arranges the cars in groups of four, he has three leftovers. If he arranges them in groups of 3, he has two leftovers and there are three leftovers when he puts them in groups of five. Oliver definitely doesn’t have any more than 30 cars, so how many does he have?

A. 27
B. 28
C: 21
D: 22
E: None of these.

Q 15. It takes an Engineer three hours to drive to his brother’s house at an average speed of 50 miles per hour. If He takes the same route home, but his average speed is 60 miles per hour, what is the time, in hours, that it takes him to drive home?

A) 2 hours and 33 minutes
B) 2 hours and 30 minutes
C)2 hours and 3 minutes
D) 2 hours and 60 minutes

Q 17. A stamping machine can stamp 40 envelopes in 8 minutes. How many of stamping machines, working at the same time, are required to stamp 120 envelopes per minute?

A) 3 Machines
B)24 Machines
C)60 Machines
D)28 Machines
E)600

Q 18. Yesterday, Kofi earned 50 Cedis mowing lawns. Today, Kofi earned 60% of what he earned yesterday mowing lawns. How much money did Kojo earn mowing lawns today?