By
Gifty Amofa, GNA
Accra, Jan. 15, GNA
– Commissioner of Police (COP) Mrs Maame Yaa Tiwaa Addo-Danquah, the immediate
past Director General (DG) of the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) of
the Ghana Police Service, has called on personnel of the department to sustain
the momentum gained in all their efforts.
Speaking to the men
and women of the Department on Tuesday as part of her send-off party, she urged
them to give their maximum cooperation to COP Isaac Ken Yeboah, the new DG.
She praised them for
their support during her tenure and asked them not to relent on their oars.
“The officers have
been very cooperative, I have asked them to stand in for me many times on short
notices but they have always responded positively and never turned me down,” she
said.
“I could not have
been able to do all these without your support, your enthusiasm to get things
done is amazing and I am hopeful that the good standard that has been set would
be sustained so that we can have a successful CID.
She said, “What I am
asking of you is that you should not let anything be about me but rather the
CID, give maximum and better support to the incoming boss than you even gave to
me otherwise he cannot succeed.”
COP Addo-Danquah,
who assumed office as the new Director-General Welfare of the Ghana Police
Service on Wednesday, January 15, enumerated some of her achievements during
her time as the digitisation of the case tracking system, provision of elevator
for the CID building and organizing training programmes for personnel at the
Detective Training Academy.
She also used three
months to arbitrate the impasse between the National Lotteries and the Lotto
Operators which had lingered for 30 years.
Her 26-month in
office also saw the establishment of a Forensic Laboratory which would soon be
opened, adding that all was set for its opening.
COP Addo-Danquah
also instituted a collaboration between the CID and the University of Cape
Coast to introduce a Criminal Investigative Programme for students to read and
it would be opened to personnel as well as members of the public to come to the
CID premises to be enrolled and to pick up some investigative skills.
The former CID
Director General attributed these successes to team work, the family system and
the cooperative nature of the rank and file.
Now in charge of the
Welfare of the entire Police Service, she called on the new boss to help
sustain the digitization case system as that would help to track old cases with
the press of a button.
Those she worked
with described her as versatile and can work anywhere she was placed.
She is a leader with
a listening ear, approachable, easy to communicate with and made their working
environment the best.
GNA