Dr. George Akuffo Dampare, the inspector general of police, has refuted claims that his office is delaying promotions for police officers.
He claimed that any police officer who was eligible for promotion had already received it.
Dr. Dampare claimed that since he took office, all necessary promotions have been made when speaking to the parliamentary committee charged with investigating a tape that was leaked about his administration.
“There is no hold up of promotion of any junior officer in the whole police service,” he said. “Even as we speak, the structure has been that any junior officer who is four years is sent to training and they are promoted. And they are waiting to promote the next set of officers who are due for promotion…So nobody in the service whose promotion is being held. So that is another set of concocted stories which is being put out there for mischievous reasons.”
“So everybody who is supposed to be promoted based on the junior rank has been done and everybody who is supposed to be promoted based on the senior rank have been promoted and that is where we are,” he stated.
In a recent lawsuit, 82 disgruntled police officers claimed that the Attorney General, the Ghana Police Service, and the IGP had acted arbitrarily and unfairly by failing to promote them.
According to the police officers, the study leave with pay policy of the service entitled them to promotions after their studies were finished, but even several months after finishing their studies, they have not yet received a promotion.
In a related news, IGP Dampare denied having any hand in the recording of the leaked tape as alleged by COP Alex Mensah.
A senior police officer named George Alex Mensah claimed that the Inspector General of Police (IGP) was behind the recording and distribution of a private conversation he [COP Mensah] had with former New Patriotic Party (NPP) Northern Regional Chairman, Daniel Bugri Naabu. This is in reference to the alleged plot to have the IGP removed.
