Tag Archives: IGP

Police officers who die in the line of duty will now have qualified relatives recruited into the service to compensate for the loss, the Inspector-General of Police Dr George Akuffo Dampare has disclosed. According to the IGP, the initiative is part of a broad range of measures being taken by …

The Inspector General of Police, Dr. George Akuffo Dampare, has made some changes within the high command of the Ghana Police Service. In the current reshuffle, the Accra Regional Police Commander, DCOP Iddi Seidu has been moved to the National Patrols Department to serve as deputy to the Director General, …

Chairman of the Defense and Interior Committee of Parliament, Kennedy Agyapong, has asked the Inspector General of Police to take immediate steps to train his officers in crowd control. This, in his view, will enable the officers determine when to, or not to use excessive force to control crowd. The …

Member of Parliament, Sam Nartey George, has given the Inspector General of Police, Dr. George Akuffo Dampare, a 24-hour ultimatum for an erected illegal LGBTQ+ promotional billboard on the Tema-Motorway stretch of the N1 to be pulled down. Sam George, who is lead sponsor of the Proper Human Sexual Rights and Ghanaian Family …

The Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Dr. George Akuffo Dampare has invited the organizers of the much-talked-about three-day demonstration with arms at the forecourt of the Ghana Broadcasting Corporation (GBC). The organizers at an earlier press conference held in Accra asked the police to allow them to carry their own registered weapons during …

The Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Dr. George Akuffo Dampare has directed all Public Affairs Officers of the Police Service, as well as Regional Commanders, from henceforth cease granting interviews or issuing press releases on any matter within their jurisdiction to the media. The directive is to remain in force until …

Samuel Nartey George’s altercation with the former Australian High Commissioner over his alleged involvement in the promotion of homosexuality in the country has come up in the wake of the Inspector-General of Police and the British High Commissioner’s row. Sam Nartey George is on record to have threatened to beat Gregory …

International Diplomatic Consultant, Farouk Al Wahab, has described the response by the Inspector General of Police (IGP), Dr. George Akuffo Dampare, to UK High Commissioner in Ghana as the most suitable comment. He admitted that IGP’s comment directed to the commissioner, Harriet Thompson, was completely apt and right–something he sees …

A one-time deputy minister, Felix Kwakye Ofosu has waded into the Inspector General of Police, IGP George Akuffo Dampare’s protest against British High Commissioner, Harriet Thompson. The Police chief via a May 20 statement accused the diplomat of being biased and meddlesome in her tweet commenting on the arrest of …

Harriet Thompson, the British High Commissioner to Ghana, has spoken for the first time since the Ghana Police Service published a four-paged letter addressed to her over a tweet she made last month. The tweet of May 17 bordered on the arrest of #FixTheCountry campaigner, Oliver Barker-Vormawor for a road …