The Ghana Police Service was identified as the nation's most corrupt public entity in the Ghana Statistical Service's (GSS) study on corruption perception.

The GSS stated that the technique used complies with all global regulations. Dr. George Akuffo Dampare, the Inspector General of the Ghana Police Service, questioned the survey's methodology in a five-page letter to GSS and CHRAJ on Wednesday.

The IGP stated, "Therefore, our concern is the use of selective ranking technique to project the findings in a manner that places an unfair spotlight on the Police Service with all the others in your corruption index escape public scrutiny.

However, despite the issues identified by the Ghana Police, Anthony Amuzu Pharin, director of social and demographic statistics at the GSS, claimed that their approach had no flaws in an interview with JoyNews on Thursday.

"I don't find any flaws in the process, in my opinion. It is a reliable approach that has been used successfully around the world. Therefore, it is not as though there is a flaw in the technique since we left out an institution. Our aim is an institutional level, so we can pick whatever collection of institutions to symbolise that, he added.

Mr. Pharin emphasised that the poll was "totally a home survey" in response to the IGP's worries about the GSS including the Police Service and other organisations referenced throughout the research.

He said that because the research was exclusively based on family opinions and experiences, institutions could not be involved.

Whether what the homes are telling us is accurate or not, he said, "the presumption is that we are taking what the households are saying. For us, that is the assumption when we go for household survey...the premise is that you are telling me the truth."

However, according to Dr. George Akuffo Dampare, the research's conclusions have been "heavily contested and distorted from both the academic and practical point of view."

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