ACP Maame Yaa Tiwaa Addo-Danquah
The Inspector General of Police (IGP), David Asante-Apeatu, has appointed ACP Maame Yaa Tiwaa Addo-Danquah as the acting Director-General of the Criminal Investigations Department (CID).
Until her appointment, ACP Tiwaa Addo-Danquah was the deputy Director-General of the CID as a forensic Accountant, and foundation head of the newly established Financial Forensic Unit (FFU) to investigate cases of financial crime from the public sector.
She is the second female to head the CID after Commissioner of Police (COP) Gifty Annin Botwe (Rtd).
She takes over from COP Bright Oduro, who is proceeding on terminal leave.
Mr Asante-Apeatu, in a police wireless message sent to all police management board members (POMAB), regional, division and district Unit commanders dated October 17, 2017, said she is to act as the director general of CID with immediate effect to fill the vacuum created by the exit of COP Oduro.
Mr Oduro’s removal from the service was contained in a subtle order to him to proceed on his terminal leave, pending his retirement in January 2018.
ACP Tiwaa Addo-Danquah was enlisted into the Ghana Police Service in July 1990 with Diploma in Business Studies (Accounting Option).
After the recruit training, she first worked at the Police Hospital Finance Unit and was subsequently posted to the National Headquarters Finance Department.
After she obtained the Institute of Chartered Accountants (ICA) level 1 qualification, she was promoted to the rank of Chief Inspector with direct entry to the Police College.
She was commissioned into the officer corps in April 1999, and was awarded the Sword of Honouras, the Best Cadet Officer.
After graduating from the Police College, she was again posted to the Police Hospital Finance Department as the second in command.
She was later appointed as the acting Health Service Administrator of the Hospital.
ACP Addo Dankwah served for 13 months at the United Nations Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK).
From January 2004 to January 2007, she travelled to United Kingdom (UK) to further her education as a fully qualified Chartered and Certified Accountant and was admitted as a member of Association of Chartered Certified Accountant (ACCA) England and Wales.
Back in Ghana, she was attached to the Controller and Accountant’s General Department for 10 months where she was rotated through all the departments within the Controller and Accountant General’s Department.
In October 2007, she was posted to the CID to head the Commercial Crime Unit.
She was also the director of the Detective Training School (DTS) which had been expanded and reorganised to be the Training Directorate of the CID.
She served as guest lecturer at the Banking College, GIMPA and the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Financial Crime Investigations.
She was the first female Commandant of the Ghana Police Command and Staff College (GPCSC) at Winneba in the Central Region.
While there, she pursed her MBA (finance Option) at the University of Cape Coast.
She was later transferred to Accra Central Division, as the Divisional Commander and Police Intelligence and Professional Standards Unit PIPS in January 2017 as Deputy Director General.
She is married to Ofosu Addo-Danquah, a lecturer at the Department of French Language at the University of Cape Coast and has three children.
By Linda Tenyah-Ayettey