The Inspector General of Police David Asante-Apeatu has embarked on a shake up of the service in the wake of the rising spate of robberies and general state of insecurity that has gripped the country.
ACP Dr Sayibu Pabi Garibu of the Police Intelligence and Professional Standards (PIPS) Bureau, is now the Director, National Operations.
According to a statement signed by the Director General, Public Affairs, ACP David Eklu and sighted by Peacefmonline.com, Dr. George Akuffo Dampare, Director General of Police Operations has been moved to head the Research and Planning Department of the Ghana Police Service; a position previously held by COP Nathan Kofi Boakye last year.
Interestingly, Mr Boakye, - who experienced his second transfer since the change of government, having been moved from the Ashanti Region as the Regional Commander to the Police headquarters as Director General Research/Planning in February 2017, and later appointed Director General of the PIPS Bureau - is not named in the list of new command positions.
COP Dampare, one of Ghana’s most respected and celebrated police officers, is to be replaced by the Eastern Regional Commander DCOP Simon Afeku, whilst COP Christian Tetteh Yohonu becomes Director General, Police Intelligence.
Though it is unclear reasons for the latest reshuffle, it comes at a time when the police service has been severely tongue-lashed following an increase in the spate of robbery cases across the country.
COP Dampare was formerly in charge of ICT at the Police Headquarters before he was made Director General of Police Operations in July 2017.
Prior to his appointment to the ICT department, he was the head of the Police Command and Staff College at Winneba in the Central Region, a position he took after he was transferred as the Accra Police Commander in May 2016, prior to the elections.
His reassignment comes at a time when some Ghanaians on social media have called on the government to sack the Interior Minister and the IGP for failing to ensure the protection of the citizenry.
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Source: Peacefmonline.com
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The same people were in the police service when these robbery was going on. How does moving them around change the situation. If some of them were in Nigeria and or other nations abroad and are being brought in that is good but redeploying the same old people can't change anything. This is live transferring you akpeteshie2 from one bottle to the other, the content never changes.
You are spot on. How can a diabetic president and vice president do any better job. Their feet is always aching and their hands are numbing always. So every few minutes they feel pains and that is affecting their competence. The so called Barwumia who claimed is competent is the head of the security council of the nation and see what is happening.
In a country where about 60 percent of government appointees are old men and women including the president himself why won't we have these problems. Even the vice president who is a little bit younger always collapses when he works for more than six hours. The president cannot do more than one and half hours 6th March, state of nation address and press conference. The only reason he travels is to be sleeping in the plane for several hours, so what do you expect in the nation. Lazy men and women has been given the job and they are messing up big time.
I can't imagine these robbers are having their way. Are the police not using any interrogation techniques? or they consider that barbaric? If they were, we wouldn't be seeing what we are seeing. USE ALL THE INTERROGATION TECHNIQUES. LIVES NEED TO BE SAVED. SECURITY OFFICERS USE YOUR COMMONS SENSE...USE EVERY WAYS AND MEANS...
This IGP seem not to be getting his reshuffles right. You first moved Kofi Boakye who was able to combat crime in Western and Ashanti region to Research instead of operation which i believe is what he is good at. Now you have taken him off completely, i am not a prophet of doom but i can confidently say this reshuffle will also backfire soon.
Maybe he's going to be the new IGP, who knows. If nana addo has appointed MARTIN amidu, why not Kofi Boakye, after all it is now clear NPP do not have the men as they claim. Mahama was incompetent but nana addo is super INCOMPETENT with super super INCOMPETENT and lying vice president.
Concert reshuffle. The I GO himself should be fired