[ 2019-03-06 ]

Akufo-Addo lauds Supt Osei for emerging best UN officer
President Akufo-Addo has congratulated Ms Phyllis
Ama Tebuah Osei for winning the United Nations
Female Police Officer of the Year Award (formerly
known as the International Female Police
Peacekeeper Award) in 2018.

The President in his 62nd Independence Anniversary
speech Wednesday in Tamale in the Northern region
commended Ghana's security services for their
professionalism but singled out Ms Osei for
praise.

Ms Osei, a Superintendent of Police from the Ghana
Police Service, was selected for the Award as her
policing work, directly and positively impacted
the community and the host state police in
Jubaland, Somalia in November 2018.

She was deployed to Kismayo on February 3, 2018,
to provide, among other tasks, strategic advice to
the Somali Police and the local authorities.

As a member of the United Nations Mission in
Somalia (UNSOM), her contributions enhancing the
protection of women and girls, as well as her
initiatives to promote women rights in the host
state police, embody the spirit of the Award and
embrace the values of international policing.

The UN praised her for being particularly
successful at initiating an adult literacy
training for 49 female police officers in
Jubaland. She also formed a Female Peacekeeper
Network (FPN) within UNSOM and AMISOM to provide
support to female peacekeepers.

Source - Graphic

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