[ 2017-01-25 ]

Akufo-Addo names COP Asante-Apeatu as new IGP
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has named
COP David Asante-Apeatu as the acting Inspector
General of Police (IGP).

The former IGP, John Kudalor earlier today
(Wednesday), went to the Flagstaff House to bid
the president farewell having officially retired
from the service.

Mr. Kudalor was appointed by former President,
John Dramani Mahama to the position in an acting
capacity in November 2015.

He was later confirmed IGP in February 2016.

The appointment of  IGP has been political since
independence.

A substantive IGP will named subsequently by the
President in consultation with the Council of
State.

Roles played by the new IGP
 
.Director General Research & Planning of the Ghana
Police service

.He was once the Director-General of the Criminal
Investigations Department (CID) of the service.

.In 2007 he was appointed Director of the
Specialised Crime and Analysis (SCA) Unit at the
INTERPOL headquarters in Lyon France.

.Internationally, he had worked at the Sarajevo
Police Academy as an Instructor in Human Dignity,
Police Ethics and Criminal Investigations under
the auspices of the United Nations Task Force in
Bosnia-Herzegovina from 1997 to 1998.

.He was the team leader in a successful homicide
investigation under the request of the United
Nations Mission in Liberia (UNAMIL).

.He was the team leader in investigations into the
mass murder of more than 50 people, mostly West
African nationals, in The Gambia.

.In Ghana, he was the Lead Investigator in the
serial killing of more than 30 women that led to
the arrest of a culprit who had been prosecuted,
convicted and sentenced to death.

.Under the supervision of Mr Asante-Apeatu and
based on intelligence, the CID successfully
conducted an operation that resulted in the
seizure of 588 kilogrammes of cocaine with the
street value of about $38 million.

Source - citifmonline.com

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