Effia Tenge
Superintendent of Police, Effia Tenge, has resigned from the Ghana Police Service (GPS), having taken an appointment in Parliament to head the newly formed Directorate of Media Relations, which has been carved out of the Public Affairs Department.
She worked for the GPS for 18 years, rising through the ranks from Inspector to Superintendent and managing the service’s public relations at different levels.
Until her resignation, Supt. Tenge was in charge of Public Affairs Department at the Volta Regional Police Command.
She joined the service in 2005 and worked at the Media Monitoring Centre of the Police Public Affairs Directorate at the national headquarters.
She was moved to the Accra Regional Police Command in 2014 and still worked at the Public Affairs Department before taking to the Volta Region in August 2021.
The police officer, who was instrumental in the introduction of the Police Regional News Magazine dubbed “Police Diary,” was said to have tendered in her acceptance letter of the new appointment on February 28, 2023, but requested a month grace period to settle things with her former institution to begin work on April 3, 2023.
She will meet Kate Addo, the Director of the Public Affairs Department, who will be in charge of the newly established Broadcasting Department.
DAILY GUIDE gathered Ms. Addo, a former GBC TV presenter with little experience in TV production, was not pleased with the development, particularly since the Department she has been given allegedly lacks infrastructure such as studio space, a broadcasting licence, and personnel.
But Supt. Tenge is reportedly not perturbed and will want to work with Kate Addo in seamless way, with her background as having helped to promote police professionalism, respect for human rights, transparency in police operations and accountability to the public.
She is considered to have implemented initiatives to reduce growing tension and restore public confidence in the Ghana Police Service through activation of expats dialogue sessions during the kidnapping of some foreigners in Ghana.
Supt. Tenge is also credited of having facilitated partnerships with the King James Foundation and the Ghana Medical Missions (USA) to offer health screening to police officers and donate medical supplies to the Police Hospital.
In the project, female police officers benefited from empowerment on health issues such as cervical cancer, depression, breast cancer and reproductive and maternal health.
The police officer was responsible for organising seminars on stress management, mental health, suicide prevention, and lifestyle diseases for officers, as well as providing public health safety advice to officers during the COVID-19 outbreak.
In the Volta Region, she launched a programme with Ghana Education Service and the Domestic Violence and Victims Support Unit to educate and empower 5,900 students in junior and senior high schools to recognise and report early sexual advances.
A News Desk Report