President Nana Akufo-Addo has asked the Deputy Inspector General of Police, James Oppong-Boanuh, to serve in an acting capacity until a substantive IGP is appointed.
David Asante Apeatu first became IGP of the Ghana Police Service on January 25, 2017.
Before his appointment, he was the head of the General ICT Department at the Police Headquarters as well as the head of the Marine Police.
He had also served as the Director-General in charge of Research and Director-General of the Police CID.
Outside Ghana, he was appointed Director of the Specialised Crime and Analysis (SCA) Unit at the INTERPOL headquarters in Lyon France in 2017.
He also worked at the Sarajevo Police Academy as an Instructor in Human Dignity, Police Ethics and Criminal Investigations under the auspices of the United Nations Task Force in Bosnia-Herzegovina from 1997 to 1998.
David Asante Apeatu was the team leader in a successful homicide investigation under the request of the United Nations Mission in Liberia and the team leader in investigations into the mass murder of more than 50 people in The Gambia.
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