DSP Kwesi Ofori Takes Office

The former Director of Public Affairs at the Ghana Police Service, Supt. Kwesi Ofori, was Thursday inducted into office as the new District Police Commander for Tafo-Pankrono in the Kumasi metropolis, at a brief handing over ceremony held at the District police Headquarters.

Sup. Kwesi Ofori takes over from the then commander, DSP Kwaku Buah, who is now on his way to the Tema Community I district in the Greater Accra Region.

The former Police Public Affairs Director was controversially transferred from the national headquarters of the police, amidst conjectures that his re-assignment might have come about as a result of his alleged poor handling of the contentious Amina brother Tape, and his alleged rush in the announcement of the interdiction of 17 police officers, over which the top police hierarchy was alleged to have been infuriated.

Against this backdrop, many saw Supt. Kwesi Ofori’s transfer as a “demotion” considering the variance in command between his previous and present office.A check from the police, however, indicates that Supt. Ofori’s transfer was not a demotion, since it was a normal thing in the rank of the service for a Superintendent to be assigned duty as District Police Commander.

Nevertheless, it was a joy and sorrowful mood, as the police officers bid their colleague farewell, whilst welcoming the new District Police Command at a ceremony, which was held at the new district headquarters located at Tafo Nhyiaeso, close to the popular Yam Market.