Ghana�s Inspector General of Police (IGP), Paul Tawiah Quaye, has been awarded the Most Efficient IGP in West Africa, by the West Africa Nobles Forum in Accra.
In a citation accompanying the award, the IGP was described as �a proficient systems administrator with enormous experience in policy formulation, strategic human asset management and organizational change planning�.
Mr. Paul Tawiah Quaye was credited with the launching of the 5-year Strategic National Policing Plan, Introduction of Training and Re-training of Police personnel in the Service, Formation of the Marine Police Unit, Codifying of acts, rules and regulations guiding the operations of the Service into a single document, and the launching of the Image Cleansing Campaign to raise the professionalism of the Service among others.
The citation continued that the IGP is also credited with a lot of accomplishments including the designing and developing of the Ghana Police Website in 2003, designing the NETWORK and Data Communication facilities at the National Police Headquarters in 2002.
He also received acknowledgement for the Computerization of financial and administration software, including mechanized payroll processing for the Police Service in 1994, re-organisation of the Narcotic Unit of the CID in 1986, and the development of the Police Organisational Structure of the African Union Mission in Sudan in 2006.
In a speech delivered on his behalf by the Director of Police Training, ACP Kofi Boakye, the IGP said upon his assumption of office, the Police Service had achieved a lot in terms of its constitutional mandate.
He however noted there were still enormous challenges that needed to be addressed.
�These are challenges associated with the dynamic nature of society and the sophisticated dimension that criminal activities have assumed. The Police needed to device the quickest and most efficient strategies for dealing with them� the IGP noted.
He said the Administration consequently came out with a 9-point intervention strategy which employed constitutionally approved and internationally accepted democratic principles to the delivery of services to all stakeholders.
According to him, the vision of the Administration was to make the Police a world-class one. Mr. Paul Tawiah Quaye said as part of activities to attain this goal, the Service launched the Strategic National Policing Plan, which serves as a guide post for the Service, in May 2010.
He said the Service also embarked on internal restructuring, where several outfits were realigned and new ones created to deal with specific issues. These units included the Intelligence Unit, the Modus Operandi Unit, the Oil and Gas Unit, the Auto Crime Unit and the SWAT teams.
Mr. Paul Tawiah Quaye said his administration has made training and re-training the bedrock of its development agenda, adding that since assuming office, refresher courses for personnel ranging from constables to officer ranks, are organised on regular basis.
He mentioned the Image Cleaning Campaign launched in 2010 to rid the service of miscreants as one of the steps the Police Administration is taking to bring the Service to the level of international best practices.
He added that, to make the Service responsible and accountable, Police Intelligence and Professional Standards Directorate has been popularized, and a few branches opened in the regions to enable the public seek regress against Police Officers who misconduct themselves in the course of performing their duties.
�The result of these interventions is that generally, crime has seen a downward trend, bringing robbery down from 1,448 in 2008, to 1,256 in 2010� Mr. Tawiah Quaye noted.
Awards were also presented to Mr. Kofi Bansah, the Director-General of the Ghana Prisons, Dr. Yaw Adu Gyamfi, Chief Executive Officer of DANADAMS Pharmaceutical Limited, the Deputy Attorney-General, Hon. Ebo Barten-Oduro, MP for Assin North, Hon. Kennedy Agyapong, and Mr. Kwame Ofosu Bamfo of Bamson Company Limited.
The West Africa No-bles Forum is a non-governmental, non-religious and non-profit making organisation with its headquarters in Accra.
It was established in October 2003 and has a membership of about 700 made up of statesmen, legal luminaries, politicians, research fellows, technocrats, medical giants, professionals and captains of industries.
Its objectives is to assemble eminent West Africans with vast experience in their chosen fields of endeavour, who meet periodically to deliberate and offer solutions to myriad of problems confronting the sub-region.
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