23/05/2010
Story: Mary Mensah
NEWMONT Ghana has opened a local vendor registration programme and suppliers summit in Accra to expand its local supplier database and develop business relationships with qualified local manufacturers, service providers, consultants and trading companies.
The summit was also to provide information to prospective local vendors on how Newmont does business in Ghana and to unveil its local sourcing policy.
During the last quarter of 2009 Newmont Ghana, with the full support of the Africa Regional Leadership Team (ARLT), made a decision to develop a Local Sourcing Policy and it was intended that the policy would set out the company’s commitment to local sourcing, but also interface with the broader industry initiative and this was approved by the ARLT on February 8, 2010.
Mr Simon Blamires, an official of Newmont Ghana said currently there are 521 local suppliers doing business with the company and Newmont intend to empower them and to help the economy to grow.
He said trade between the local Ghanaian companies and Newmont stands at $150 million but plans are far advance to increase this amount to either $200 million or $250 million.
He said Newmont intend to enhance local capability by increasing the capital base of the local companies so that they can compete with international companies.
Mr Blamires indicated that throughout the world, and particularly in developing countries, the Social License under which mining companies operate is changing besides the key objective of the Government of Ghana is to increase both the use and development of local manufacturers, suppliers, contractors and consultants.
He said the above objective is required by law and in the investment agreements of several companies including Newmont it is a commitment of this government to the people of Ghana adding that the mining industry is a critical component of the Ghanaian economy and a primary user of many local suppliers and vendor businesses and it is our intention that this increases.
He stated that throughout 2009 Newmont’s SCM group has been working with the Chamber of Mines and the Minerals Commission to develop a local sourcing policy for the industry adding that this work is continuing and a second draft of Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) is expected to be circulated to all stakeholders for review by the end of March 2010.
Mr Blamires said Newmont intends to be the most respected mining company in Ghana in terms of optimising the value of in-country spend and the development of sustainable local businesses.
“To deliver price and quality competitive goods and services, safely and in a timely manner to meet the needs of the business on a “lowest total cost” basis whilst providing transparent opportunities for Local Companies to secure contracts”, he said.
He asserted that Newmont will continually striving to increase the amount of expenditure with and the sustainability of local companies; maximizing the contribution of Newmont Ghana’s mining activities to the broader Ghanaian economy; supporting capacity building and partnering with Local Companies on a broader front with industry groups, NGOs, vendors and investors so as to develop long term sustainable businesses.
Sunday, May 23, 2010
POLICE ADMINISTRATION EXPRESS GRAVE CONCERN (PAGE 3)
Story: Mary Mensah
The Police Administration has noted with grave concern the activities of some unscrupulous persons and criminals who are using the name of the Inspector General of Police (IGP), Mr Paul Tawiah Quaye to defraud prospective investors living in the Diaspora.
These criminals operating under the guise of the Advance Fee Fraud Scam (419), have manage to defraud their victims of moneys running into several thousands of dollars.
The Director of the Police Public Affairs Directorate, DSP Kwesi Ofori said these scammers use the name, picture and office of the IGP and have even created an identical police website all in an effort to dupe their victims.
He said the criminals also purported on their website that they are agents of the police who have been tasked by the government to act on behalf of the police.
He said some of them uses addresses, emails and post office boxes that are not for the police or not in existence.
DSP Ofori said the Police Administration will like to distance itself from the activities of these criminals and appealed to all well meaning Ghanaians and foreigners to be wary of the activities of these con-men or criminals.
He stressed that the police administration does not have agents working for it besides it has worked very hard over the years to put the name of the police very high and for such criminals to use the name outside the jurisdiction of the country to defraud is a very serious offence.
“This criminal activities has been a source of great worry to the administartion and we will co-operate with our international partners like the Interpol, West African Police and other sister police forces in Europe and America in order to arrest them and bring them to book”, he stated.
He indicated that the official police website is www.ghanapolice.info and want the public to take note of that.
DSP Ofori warned the criminals to desist from acts that will tarnish the image of the police and said when arrested they would be severely dealth with according to the tenents of the law.
He also appealed to anybody with information about the activities of these criminals to report to the police.
The Police Administration has noted with grave concern the activities of some unscrupulous persons and criminals who are using the name of the Inspector General of Police (IGP), Mr Paul Tawiah Quaye to defraud prospective investors living in the Diaspora.
These criminals operating under the guise of the Advance Fee Fraud Scam (419), have manage to defraud their victims of moneys running into several thousands of dollars.
The Director of the Police Public Affairs Directorate, DSP Kwesi Ofori said these scammers use the name, picture and office of the IGP and have even created an identical police website all in an effort to dupe their victims.
He said the criminals also purported on their website that they are agents of the police who have been tasked by the government to act on behalf of the police.
He said some of them uses addresses, emails and post office boxes that are not for the police or not in existence.
DSP Ofori said the Police Administration will like to distance itself from the activities of these criminals and appealed to all well meaning Ghanaians and foreigners to be wary of the activities of these con-men or criminals.
He stressed that the police administration does not have agents working for it besides it has worked very hard over the years to put the name of the police very high and for such criminals to use the name outside the jurisdiction of the country to defraud is a very serious offence.
“This criminal activities has been a source of great worry to the administartion and we will co-operate with our international partners like the Interpol, West African Police and other sister police forces in Europe and America in order to arrest them and bring them to book”, he stated.
He indicated that the official police website is www.ghanapolice.info and want the public to take note of that.
DSP Ofori warned the criminals to desist from acts that will tarnish the image of the police and said when arrested they would be severely dealth with according to the tenents of the law.
He also appealed to anybody with information about the activities of these criminals to report to the police.
TWO GHANAIANS ARRESTED AT KIA FOR POSSESSING NACORTICS
23/05/2010
Story:Mary Mensah
The Narcotics Control Board (NACOB) has arrested two Ghanaian-born Dutch nationals and a Nigerian for allegedly possessing substances suspected to be cocaine at the Kotoka International Airport (KIA).
The three were arrested on arrival at the KIA from Brazil on board a South African Airlines and when their luggage was searched, the substances were found hidden in it.
The Head of Operations at NACOB, Mr Dickson Akatsa, told the Daily Graphic in an interview that about 11:30 p.m. on March 8, 2010, operatives of NACOB arrested the three persons as they were going through arrival formalities.
He said the first person to be arrested was Alice Akosua Effah, 53. When her luggage was searched, three parcels of a whitish substance suspected to be cocaine weighing 7.8 kilos were found hidden in it.
He said Alice, a Ghanaian-born Dutch national resident in Amsterdam, upon interrogation, told the officials that one Natasha, a Brazilian also living in Amsterdam, had introduced her to the trade.
She claimed that on February 18, 2010, the said Natasha took her to Brazil to buy the drugs. She said she was introduced to a Ghanaian by name Kwabena, resident in Brazil, who supplied them with the drugs to be delivered to an unnamed person in Accra for a fee of $8,000.
On the same day, Mercy Vivian Quao, 52, also a Ghanaian-born Dutch citizen resident in Amsterdam who was on the same flight with Alice, was found to have concealed four kilos of a substance suspected to be cocaine in her luggage.
Upon interrogation, she stated that one Ghanaian woman by name Akosua, also living in Amsterdam, had sponsored her to Brazil where one Kojo, a Ghanaian resident in Brazil, gave her the drugs to be delivered in Accra for a fee of $10,000.
Mr Akatsa said the third person was a Nigerian by name Charles Emeka Ngige, 46, who was taken through a body scanner on suspicion that he had injected illicit drugs.
He said it was detected that he had foreign materials in his stomach and upon interrogation, he admitted swallowing 80 pellets of a drug suspected to be cocaine.
Ngige claimed that another Nigerian, by name Jude, domiciled in Brazil, gave him the drugs to be given to another person in Lagos for a fee of $3,000.
Mr Akatsa indicated that Ngige had since expelled all 80 pellets, all of which tested positive for cocaine.
He said all the arrested persons would be arraigned, while samples of the drugs would be sent to the Ghana Standards Board for further examination.
Story:Mary Mensah
The Narcotics Control Board (NACOB) has arrested two Ghanaian-born Dutch nationals and a Nigerian for allegedly possessing substances suspected to be cocaine at the Kotoka International Airport (KIA).
The three were arrested on arrival at the KIA from Brazil on board a South African Airlines and when their luggage was searched, the substances were found hidden in it.
The Head of Operations at NACOB, Mr Dickson Akatsa, told the Daily Graphic in an interview that about 11:30 p.m. on March 8, 2010, operatives of NACOB arrested the three persons as they were going through arrival formalities.
He said the first person to be arrested was Alice Akosua Effah, 53. When her luggage was searched, three parcels of a whitish substance suspected to be cocaine weighing 7.8 kilos were found hidden in it.
He said Alice, a Ghanaian-born Dutch national resident in Amsterdam, upon interrogation, told the officials that one Natasha, a Brazilian also living in Amsterdam, had introduced her to the trade.
She claimed that on February 18, 2010, the said Natasha took her to Brazil to buy the drugs. She said she was introduced to a Ghanaian by name Kwabena, resident in Brazil, who supplied them with the drugs to be delivered to an unnamed person in Accra for a fee of $8,000.
On the same day, Mercy Vivian Quao, 52, also a Ghanaian-born Dutch citizen resident in Amsterdam who was on the same flight with Alice, was found to have concealed four kilos of a substance suspected to be cocaine in her luggage.
Upon interrogation, she stated that one Ghanaian woman by name Akosua, also living in Amsterdam, had sponsored her to Brazil where one Kojo, a Ghanaian resident in Brazil, gave her the drugs to be delivered in Accra for a fee of $10,000.
Mr Akatsa said the third person was a Nigerian by name Charles Emeka Ngige, 46, who was taken through a body scanner on suspicion that he had injected illicit drugs.
He said it was detected that he had foreign materials in his stomach and upon interrogation, he admitted swallowing 80 pellets of a drug suspected to be cocaine.
Ngige claimed that another Nigerian, by name Jude, domiciled in Brazil, gave him the drugs to be given to another person in Lagos for a fee of $3,000.
Mr Akatsa indicated that Ngige had since expelled all 80 pellets, all of which tested positive for cocaine.
He said all the arrested persons would be arraigned, while samples of the drugs would be sent to the Ghana Standards Board for further examination.
ELECTRICITY DEMAND REDUCED (page 30)
23/05/2010
Story: Mary Mensah
ELECTRICITY demand in the country reduced by 124 megawatts in 2008 as a result of the mass adoption of the Compact Florescent Lamps (CFLs) as the standard electricity device and the phasing out of the incandescent filament bulbs.
This translates into an annual cash savings of $33 million to the economy and carbon savings of 105,000 tons per annum.
The Chairman of the Energy Commission, Professor Abeeku Brew-Hammond, told the press in Accra on Tuesday that Ghana had been able to avoid the use of one thermal electricity generating turbine as a result of the CFLs programme.
He announced that the Energy Commission had approved a project to enforce minimum energy performance standards for refrigerators and deep freezers.
To this end, he said only refrigerating appliances that met the minimum energy performance standards would be placed on the Ghanaian market.
He said the appliances had to be labelled appropriately to enable the purchaser to know in advance the annual electricity consumption of the product before the first retail purchase.
He said the commission had also submitted a draft Energy Renewable Law to the Minister of Energy for onward submission to the Cabinet and final passage by Parliament and had also made progress in the establishment of a Ghana Energy Renewable Fund (GREENfund).
He said the commission had launched a pilot project on solar and wind grid-connected systems with a commitment of up to GH¢100,000 from the Energy Fund and the first set of eight projects should be completed by the end of April, 2010.
Prof. Brew-Hammond announced that the National GRID Code to guide the operations of the Electricity Transmission Utility (ETU) was completed and launched in February, this year and the Natural Gas Transmission Utility Operator had also been appointed.
The chairman said the commission was the government’s energy policy advisor and would make national energy policy recommendations to the Minister of Energy for the efficient, economic and safe supply of electricity, petroleum products and natural gas having due regard to the national economy.
He said since its establishment in 1998, the commission had, as of July, 2009, made major accomplishments and mentioned the enactment of 11 pieces of legislation on technical and operational rules and standards of performance of public utilities engaged in the supply and distribution of electricity and natural gas, among others.
Prof. Brew-Hammond mentioned the passage of Renewable Energy Law, the completion of the Woodfuels and Biofuels Policy and Legislative Framework, the establishment of the GREENfund, completion of Grid-connected solar and wind pilot projects and the establishment of a National Data Processing and Information Centre as some of the commission’s targets for 2010 and beyond.
For his part, Mr Alfred Ofosu Ahenkorah, Executive Secretary of the Energy Commission, explained the shortage of LPG gas in the country and said gas was imported into the country every week and that the recent problem the country faced demanded an expanded storage facility.
He said 50 per cent of the gas went to the transport sector and vehicles fitted with cylinders had to go for periodic checks to ensure the safety of passengers.
Mr Ahenkorah said as soon as the Jubilee Fields started production it would generate a lot of gas and plans were far advanced to encourage the use of gas.
Story: Mary Mensah
ELECTRICITY demand in the country reduced by 124 megawatts in 2008 as a result of the mass adoption of the Compact Florescent Lamps (CFLs) as the standard electricity device and the phasing out of the incandescent filament bulbs.
This translates into an annual cash savings of $33 million to the economy and carbon savings of 105,000 tons per annum.
The Chairman of the Energy Commission, Professor Abeeku Brew-Hammond, told the press in Accra on Tuesday that Ghana had been able to avoid the use of one thermal electricity generating turbine as a result of the CFLs programme.
He announced that the Energy Commission had approved a project to enforce minimum energy performance standards for refrigerators and deep freezers.
To this end, he said only refrigerating appliances that met the minimum energy performance standards would be placed on the Ghanaian market.
He said the appliances had to be labelled appropriately to enable the purchaser to know in advance the annual electricity consumption of the product before the first retail purchase.
He said the commission had also submitted a draft Energy Renewable Law to the Minister of Energy for onward submission to the Cabinet and final passage by Parliament and had also made progress in the establishment of a Ghana Energy Renewable Fund (GREENfund).
He said the commission had launched a pilot project on solar and wind grid-connected systems with a commitment of up to GH¢100,000 from the Energy Fund and the first set of eight projects should be completed by the end of April, 2010.
Prof. Brew-Hammond announced that the National GRID Code to guide the operations of the Electricity Transmission Utility (ETU) was completed and launched in February, this year and the Natural Gas Transmission Utility Operator had also been appointed.
The chairman said the commission was the government’s energy policy advisor and would make national energy policy recommendations to the Minister of Energy for the efficient, economic and safe supply of electricity, petroleum products and natural gas having due regard to the national economy.
He said since its establishment in 1998, the commission had, as of July, 2009, made major accomplishments and mentioned the enactment of 11 pieces of legislation on technical and operational rules and standards of performance of public utilities engaged in the supply and distribution of electricity and natural gas, among others.
Prof. Brew-Hammond mentioned the passage of Renewable Energy Law, the completion of the Woodfuels and Biofuels Policy and Legislative Framework, the establishment of the GREENfund, completion of Grid-connected solar and wind pilot projects and the establishment of a National Data Processing and Information Centre as some of the commission’s targets for 2010 and beyond.
For his part, Mr Alfred Ofosu Ahenkorah, Executive Secretary of the Energy Commission, explained the shortage of LPG gas in the country and said gas was imported into the country every week and that the recent problem the country faced demanded an expanded storage facility.
He said 50 per cent of the gas went to the transport sector and vehicles fitted with cylinders had to go for periodic checks to ensure the safety of passengers.
Mr Ahenkorah said as soon as the Jubilee Fields started production it would generate a lot of gas and plans were far advanced to encourage the use of gas.
NIGERIAN WOMAN ARRESTED FOR DEALING IN N)ARCOTICS (Page 3
23/05/2010
Story & Pictures: Mary Mensah
A 41-year-old Nigerian woman has been arrested by officials of the Narcotics Control Board (NACOB) for importing 80 kilogrammes of substances suspected to be heroin from Iran into the country.
The suspect, Nmerika Enock, had concealed the drug in eight huge metal blocks which, she claimed, were spare parts for vessels.
She was arrested at the Aviance Cargo Village, where she had gone to clear the eight metal blocks.
According to Mr Dickson Akatsa, the Head of Operations at NACOB, the board had identified some countries as sources of drugs and was, therefore, always thorough in its investigation of people or goods arriving from those countries.
He said on March 4, 2010 NACOB officials at the Aviance Cargo Village spotted eight metal blocks which had been imported from Iran whose covering papers indicated that they were gear boxes for the Hyundai Grace mini-bus.
He said the address of the consignee, when verified, turned out to be false so the cargo was set aside for a thorough inspection and she was arrested when the suspect showed up to clear the cargo the following day.
Mr Akatsa said upon interrogation, the suspect claimed to be a trader who dealt in spare parts and that the metal blocks were spare parts for vessels which she imported from Iran to be supplied to a customer whose name she could not mention.
He said the blocks were suspected to contain illicit materials so one of them was opened in the presence of the suspect and it turned out to contain a powdery substance and a field test conducted proved that it was heroin.
The suspect was then arrested, together with the eight packages, to the offices of NACOB for further investigations.
Mr Akatsa said when the remaining metal blocks were cut open by welders, they were each found to contain 10 parcels of heroin.
Enock told interrogators that she lived in Nigeria and had arrived the previous day in Accra to clear the cargo for somebody in Lagos.
The officials did not believe her story and when they persisted in interrogating her, she claimed she lived at Ofankor.
She then took NACOB officials to a house at Ofankor, where sources said she used to live about two years ago but she had not been seen in the area since she left there.
After several hours of interrogation, the suspect broke down and informed the officials that she lived in Tema with her accomplice boyfriend, Felix Odyh. She took them to house number D9 in Community 16.
On arrival in the house, according to Mr Akatsa, NACOB officials detected that Felix had packed some valuables out of the house and left in an Infinity Four Runner vehicle, with registration number Abuja BK -5333-YAB.
The NACOB officials also found five of the metals boxes that had previously been cleared from Aviance and the contents removed.
Mr Akatsa said importation documents found in the house showed that between 2008 and the time of her arrest, the suspect and her boyfriend had succeeded in importing and clearing 14 of the metal blocks into the country.
He said upon further interrogation, the suspect said after clearing the goods from Aviance, they used a huge metal device like a crane to dismantle the metal blocks and then sent their contents to one Daniel in Abuja through a certain Maxwell in Lagos.
Investigations are continuing into the case, after which the suspect will be arraigned.
CAPTION : Suspect Nmerika Enock, a 41-year-old Nigerian, with the metal blocks and some of the substances.
Story & Pictures: Mary Mensah
A 41-year-old Nigerian woman has been arrested by officials of the Narcotics Control Board (NACOB) for importing 80 kilogrammes of substances suspected to be heroin from Iran into the country.
The suspect, Nmerika Enock, had concealed the drug in eight huge metal blocks which, she claimed, were spare parts for vessels.
She was arrested at the Aviance Cargo Village, where she had gone to clear the eight metal blocks.
According to Mr Dickson Akatsa, the Head of Operations at NACOB, the board had identified some countries as sources of drugs and was, therefore, always thorough in its investigation of people or goods arriving from those countries.
He said on March 4, 2010 NACOB officials at the Aviance Cargo Village spotted eight metal blocks which had been imported from Iran whose covering papers indicated that they were gear boxes for the Hyundai Grace mini-bus.
He said the address of the consignee, when verified, turned out to be false so the cargo was set aside for a thorough inspection and she was arrested when the suspect showed up to clear the cargo the following day.
Mr Akatsa said upon interrogation, the suspect claimed to be a trader who dealt in spare parts and that the metal blocks were spare parts for vessels which she imported from Iran to be supplied to a customer whose name she could not mention.
He said the blocks were suspected to contain illicit materials so one of them was opened in the presence of the suspect and it turned out to contain a powdery substance and a field test conducted proved that it was heroin.
The suspect was then arrested, together with the eight packages, to the offices of NACOB for further investigations.
Mr Akatsa said when the remaining metal blocks were cut open by welders, they were each found to contain 10 parcels of heroin.
Enock told interrogators that she lived in Nigeria and had arrived the previous day in Accra to clear the cargo for somebody in Lagos.
The officials did not believe her story and when they persisted in interrogating her, she claimed she lived at Ofankor.
She then took NACOB officials to a house at Ofankor, where sources said she used to live about two years ago but she had not been seen in the area since she left there.
After several hours of interrogation, the suspect broke down and informed the officials that she lived in Tema with her accomplice boyfriend, Felix Odyh. She took them to house number D9 in Community 16.
On arrival in the house, according to Mr Akatsa, NACOB officials detected that Felix had packed some valuables out of the house and left in an Infinity Four Runner vehicle, with registration number Abuja BK -5333-YAB.
The NACOB officials also found five of the metals boxes that had previously been cleared from Aviance and the contents removed.
Mr Akatsa said importation documents found in the house showed that between 2008 and the time of her arrest, the suspect and her boyfriend had succeeded in importing and clearing 14 of the metal blocks into the country.
He said upon further interrogation, the suspect said after clearing the goods from Aviance, they used a huge metal device like a crane to dismantle the metal blocks and then sent their contents to one Daniel in Abuja through a certain Maxwell in Lagos.
Investigations are continuing into the case, after which the suspect will be arraigned.
CAPTION : Suspect Nmerika Enock, a 41-year-old Nigerian, with the metal blocks and some of the substances.
IGP CAUTIONS PAULICH AGAINST FALSE ALARMS
23/05/2010
Story: Mary Mensah
THE Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Mr Paul Quaye, has cautioned the public against raising false fire alarms and bomb threats.
He indicated that some unscrupulous people were taking advantage of the increasing spate of fire outbreaks in the country to create panic and anxiety in the minds of people by raising false alarms.
Speaking at the annual WASSA celebration of the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) in Accra, the IGP noted that those threats seemed be to spreading across the country, adding that they were a matter of grave concern which demanded professional solutions.
Mr Quaye, therefore, called on detectives to elicit information that would identify those faceless and unscrupulous individuals whose stock-in-trade was the dissemination of those misleading threats.
He said the Ghana Police Service, and for that matter the CID, had a duty to stop those ill-intended alarmists before permanent damage was inflicted on the security image of the country.
He observed that the corporate image of the police had sunk low and noted that it required a Herculean task and effort to redeem it.
The IGP said 2010 was a year of image redemption for the police and went on to state that the police had focused on activities that would do away with all negative perceptions about the service, whether real or imagined.
He advised the personnel to turn around in the manner in which they treated suspects and accused persons in custody and also eschew corrupt practices and the tendency to accept money to influence the bail of suspects in custody.
He said personnel who disregarded those cautions and got themselves entangled with corrupt practices would not be treated with kids’ gloves, neither would they be shielded by the administration.
Mr Quaye said two current major interventions embarked upon by the police in the provision of state-of-the art equipment for the police were aimed at turning the fortunes of the CID around immensely.
He explained that the establishment of a DNA laboratory and an automated fingerprint identification system were two conspicuous components that could boost scientific investigations and the operational effectiveness of the CID.
For his part, the Director-General of the CID, Mr Frank Adu-Poku, said statistics from the court unit indicated that 518 cases were prosecuted, with 170 convictions, while 322 cases were still undergoing prosecution.
He announced that the CID Headquarters was receiving a facelift, with the beautification of the compound and plans to renovate the building.
“As detectives, we must avoid acts, omissions or commissions that will drag the image of the Police Service in the mud. We must respect the rights of suspects and prisoners and be very civil to the public whose support and co-operation have brought us far,” he stated.
Story: Mary Mensah
THE Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Mr Paul Quaye, has cautioned the public against raising false fire alarms and bomb threats.
He indicated that some unscrupulous people were taking advantage of the increasing spate of fire outbreaks in the country to create panic and anxiety in the minds of people by raising false alarms.
Speaking at the annual WASSA celebration of the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) in Accra, the IGP noted that those threats seemed be to spreading across the country, adding that they were a matter of grave concern which demanded professional solutions.
Mr Quaye, therefore, called on detectives to elicit information that would identify those faceless and unscrupulous individuals whose stock-in-trade was the dissemination of those misleading threats.
He said the Ghana Police Service, and for that matter the CID, had a duty to stop those ill-intended alarmists before permanent damage was inflicted on the security image of the country.
He observed that the corporate image of the police had sunk low and noted that it required a Herculean task and effort to redeem it.
The IGP said 2010 was a year of image redemption for the police and went on to state that the police had focused on activities that would do away with all negative perceptions about the service, whether real or imagined.
He advised the personnel to turn around in the manner in which they treated suspects and accused persons in custody and also eschew corrupt practices and the tendency to accept money to influence the bail of suspects in custody.
He said personnel who disregarded those cautions and got themselves entangled with corrupt practices would not be treated with kids’ gloves, neither would they be shielded by the administration.
Mr Quaye said two current major interventions embarked upon by the police in the provision of state-of-the art equipment for the police were aimed at turning the fortunes of the CID around immensely.
He explained that the establishment of a DNA laboratory and an automated fingerprint identification system were two conspicuous components that could boost scientific investigations and the operational effectiveness of the CID.
For his part, the Director-General of the CID, Mr Frank Adu-Poku, said statistics from the court unit indicated that 518 cases were prosecuted, with 170 convictions, while 322 cases were still undergoing prosecution.
He announced that the CID Headquarters was receiving a facelift, with the beautification of the compound and plans to renovate the building.
“As detectives, we must avoid acts, omissions or commissions that will drag the image of the Police Service in the mud. We must respect the rights of suspects and prisoners and be very civil to the public whose support and co-operation have brought us far,” he stated.
Alhassan Appoints as Deputy IGP
23/05/2010
Story: Mary Mensah
The President, John Evans Atta Mills, in consultation with the Police Council, has appointed Commissioner of Police (COP) Mohammed Ahmed Alhassan as the Deputy Inspector General of Police.
Fourteen other senior police officers have also been promoted from the rank of Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP) to Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCOP).
All appointments took effect from February 1, 2010.
Before his appointment, Mr Alhassan was the Director General in charge of Administration and was once Commissioner of the United Nations Mission in Liberia (UNMIL).
On his return from Liberia, he was made the Western Regional Police Commander before taking appointment as the Director General at the headquarters.
Mr Alhassan was also once in charge of the Southern Command Operations.
The 14 others are Mr Daniel Julius Avorga, Commander of the Motor Traffic and Transport Unit (MTTU), Prosper Kwame Agblor, once head of Interpol and now head of Interpol Regional Bureau for West Africa in Abidjan, Robert Adibura Ayalingo, the in-charge of CID Operations and Timothy Aquamor Ashley, Director of PIPS.
The others are Mr David Nenyi Ampah-Bennin, Volta Regional Police Commander, Mr Ransford Moses Ninson, Deputy Regional Police Commander, Brong Ahafo Region, Mrs Beatrice Zakpa Vib-Saziri, Police Attaché at the Ghana Mission in the United Kingdom, George Akuffo Dampare, Director of Finance, and Yaagi Akuribah, Chief Staff Officer.
The rest are Mr Roy Ayinibisa Amuni, Mark Robert Azu, Second in Command in the Central Region and now on UN Mission in Sudan, William Jib Kwanair, Railway and Port at Tema, Ms Mina Ayim, Divisional Commander, Akropong, and Albert Onwona-Agyemang, Head, Police Education Unit, whose promotion took effect on January 1, 2010.
Pictures of Alhassan saved in today’s file 2/03/ 2010 as Alhassan Deputy IGP.
Story: Mary Mensah
The President, John Evans Atta Mills, in consultation with the Police Council, has appointed Commissioner of Police (COP) Mohammed Ahmed Alhassan as the Deputy Inspector General of Police.
Fourteen other senior police officers have also been promoted from the rank of Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP) to Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCOP).
All appointments took effect from February 1, 2010.
Before his appointment, Mr Alhassan was the Director General in charge of Administration and was once Commissioner of the United Nations Mission in Liberia (UNMIL).
On his return from Liberia, he was made the Western Regional Police Commander before taking appointment as the Director General at the headquarters.
Mr Alhassan was also once in charge of the Southern Command Operations.
The 14 others are Mr Daniel Julius Avorga, Commander of the Motor Traffic and Transport Unit (MTTU), Prosper Kwame Agblor, once head of Interpol and now head of Interpol Regional Bureau for West Africa in Abidjan, Robert Adibura Ayalingo, the in-charge of CID Operations and Timothy Aquamor Ashley, Director of PIPS.
The others are Mr David Nenyi Ampah-Bennin, Volta Regional Police Commander, Mr Ransford Moses Ninson, Deputy Regional Police Commander, Brong Ahafo Region, Mrs Beatrice Zakpa Vib-Saziri, Police Attaché at the Ghana Mission in the United Kingdom, George Akuffo Dampare, Director of Finance, and Yaagi Akuribah, Chief Staff Officer.
The rest are Mr Roy Ayinibisa Amuni, Mark Robert Azu, Second in Command in the Central Region and now on UN Mission in Sudan, William Jib Kwanair, Railway and Port at Tema, Ms Mina Ayim, Divisional Commander, Akropong, and Albert Onwona-Agyemang, Head, Police Education Unit, whose promotion took effect on January 1, 2010.
Pictures of Alhassan saved in today’s file 2/03/ 2010 as Alhassan Deputy IGP.
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