The Inspector General of Police (IGP), Dr. George Akuffo Dampare, has refuted allegations that he is withholding promotions for officers who are eligible for advancement.
Recently, 82 dissatisfied police officers took legal action against the Attorney General, the Ghana Police Service, and the IGP, claiming unfair and arbitrary treatment in relation to the delay in their promotions within the Ghana Police Service.
These officers contended that they were qualified for promotions following the completion of their studies under the service’s study leave with pay policy. However, despite several months passing since the conclusion of their studies, they had not received their promotions.
Dr. Dampare, in response to these allegations, denied them and clarified that the service had promoted all eligible officers.
He stated, “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.
