Top Police Promoted

Nathan Kofi Boakye

A day after the Ghana Police Service denied any wrongdoing in the cocaine-turned-soda-powder saga, President Atta Mills announced new promotions in the Service.

Chief among the promotions was the elevation of some senior officers from the ranks of Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCOP) to Commissioner of Police (COP) and Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP) to Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCOP).

Those promoted included Greater Accra regional Police Commander,  Rose Bio Atinga; Ofosu-Mensah Gyeabour, Director-General in Charge of Technical Services; Dr Peter Alex Owiredu, who is currently the Director of the Ghana Immigration Service (GIS); John Kudalor, Director-General Operations; Hamidu Mahama, Director-General in charge of Human Resource and Prosper Kwame Agblor, Director-General of the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) who were all made Commissioners of Police (COP).

Others promoted from the rank of Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP) to Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCOP) included ACP Nathan Kofi Boakye, who is currently the Director of Education of the Service, Isaac Ken Yeboah, Director in charge of Legal Prosecutions, Bright Oduro, Upper East regional Police Commander, Osabarima Asare Oware Pinkro III, Deputy Western regional Commander, Kwabena Gyamera Yeboah, Eastern regional Commander and Maxwell Sikapasco Atingane.

The rest are ACPs Charles Kpapu Torkor (formerly at the Castle), Isaac Alex Quainoo and Kwasi Adei-Akyeampong, Richard Nii Ashitey Lomo Boi-Bi-Boi, George Tuffuor, Northern regional Commander, Augustine Gyenning, Tema regional Commander and Alex Bedie, Volta regional Commander. They were all promoted to the rank of DCOP.

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Rose Bio Atinga
Genuine as it maybe, these promotions have raised eyebrows among the rank and file of the Police Service considering the fact that some senior officers who are equally due for promotion including DCOP Frank Adu Poku, DCOP Patrick Timbillah, ACP Agwunbutoge Awuni, DCOP David Asante Apeatu and a host of others were not included in the promotion, giving indication that it was politically-skewed.

Mr Kofi Boakye was interdicted after his name came up in the infamous MV Benjamin cocaine sandal in 2006.

He was, however, cleared of any wrongdoing and reinstated in January 2009. Key suspects in the case were also acquitted and discharged by the court.

By Charles Takyi-Boadu