The Inspector General of Police has been forced to postpone a 25th February-scheduled Senior Police Officers Course after a query by New Interior Minister.
A new police wireless message intercepted by MyNewsGh.com by the IGP said Chief Inspectors whose training suspended for the upcoming 53rd Cadet Course for Senior Police Officers over “damning discoveries” were to report on 8th March 2024.
Earlier, a confidential letter of directive to the IGP sighted by MyNewsGh.com and signed by Interior Minister, Henry Quartey, said the senior officers course on Sunday, 25th February 2024, at the National Police Academy and Training School which the IGP had ordered should be put on hold.
The letter written by new Minister Henry Quartey to IGP Dampare dated 21st February 2024 suggested the actions of the IGP leading up to the examination and selection of officers for the 25th February 2024 Senior Officers Course “has the potential to affect morale in the service as a whole”, part of the first paragraph of the Minister’s letter said with reference number SCR/VB 78/226/01 copied to the Chairman of the Police Service Council.
Sources told MyNewsGh.com the process of selection of Senior Officers for the course has been fraught with controversies and alleged under-hand dealings going to the very top of the service.
Out of over 1831 Police officers eligible to take the exams for the training course conducted by the University of Cape Coast (UCC), the police administration sources said only 300 were to be selected on merit.
“Candidates should be made aware that out of the total number writing the examination, the first three hundred (300), in order of merit will be selected to constitute the 53rd Cadet Course. Nobody would be selected from this year’s examination to constitute any further course…” The correspondence with reference number Ref. SO/G.1/60C/VOL.2/ 19 sign DG Admin, COP C.T. Yohunu said.
However, in addition to this 300 officers selected under dubious non-transparent circumstances, sources told MyNewsGh.com another set of officers numbering over 200 were “recommended by special arrangement” without recourse to the exams performance which was supposed to be the basis to determine qualification.
