New Boss For Prisons Service

Emmanuel Yao Adzator & Matilda Baffour-Awuah

The President of Ghana, upon the recommendation of the Prisons Service Council, has appointed Emmanuel Yao Adzator, Deputy Director General of Prisons, as Acting Director General.

His appointment follows the retirement of Matilda Baffour-Awuah, the Director General of Prisons, on February 1, 2016.

Mr Adzator, until his appointment as the Acting Director General of Prisons, was the Deputy Director General of Prisons in charge of Finance and Administration of the Service.

The Acting Director General is a product of Kpando Secondary School and holds a Degree in Psychology from the University of Ghana. He also studied Human Resource Management at the Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration, and has attended several capacity training courses both home and abroad.

Mr Adzator has also undertaken several training and leadership programmes in Correctional Administration and has been trained at the Evidenced Based Strategy and Tactics for successful Correctional Reforms, Re-Entry and Reintegration in Joyfields Training Institute, Las Vegas, Navada, USA.

Also, he trained in New Approaches to Psychological Services in Correctional Institutions at the Galilee College, Israel, as well as in Advanced Prisons Management at the Galilee Management Institute, Israel.

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He has also participated in several Correctional Management Conferences at the international level.

He was enlisted into the Ghana Prisons Service in April 1989.

Mr Adzator has held several key positions, notably Deputy Director General of Prisons in charge of Finance and Administration, Director of Prisons in charge of Operations and Acting Director of Prisons Administration.

Other positions he held were Regional Commander, Ashanti Region; Second- in-Command, Medium Security Prisons, Nsawam; and Officer in charge, Obuasi Local Prisons.

He was the General Staff Officer as well as the Criminal Records Officer at the Prisons Headquarters.

Mr Adzator has served with the United Nations Mission in Darfur, (UNAMID) as a Corrections Advisor to the National Prisons Service at El Fasher, Darfur, Sudan.