A pull-out ceremony has been held in honour of the Director-General of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of the Ghana Police Service, Commissioner of Police (COP) Isaac Ken Yeboah.
The ceremony was held yesterday at the National Police Training School (NPTS) at Tesano in Accra. The ceremony was highly attended by past and serving senior police officers, family, loved one, and church members, marked with a colourful parade.
Mr. Ken Yeboah, in a gratuity speech, thanked the Police Service for having the confidence in him to occupy one of the highest offices in the Service.
Full of emotions, he told the gathering: “I have to exit from the work that I love so much to enable others take the mantle from where I have reached. I’m proud to be a Ghanaian, and extremely proud to have the opportunity to serve my country, the Ghana Police Service honorably…”
He thanked, particularly, Dr. George Akuffo-Dampare, for standing grounds to allow him to continue to work as the Director of CID, despite stiff opposition.
According to him, within the over three decades that he had served the Ghana Police Service in various capacities, he made sure that he mentored a lot of officers just as he was also mentored by others.
He, therefore, urged those coming after him to try to leave a positive legacy wherever they find themselves, and, most importantly, “If I have offended anybody, I ask for forgiveness, and if anybody has offended me, I have already forgiven the person.”
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Mr. Ken Yeboah was a member of the National Security Council, Small Arms and Light Weapons Commission, and the Police Council.
He held positions including Director General Administration, Director General Technical, Director General Legal and Prosecution, Deputy Director General Legal and Prosecution, Northern Regional Police Commander, Ashanti Regional Police Commander, Chief Staff Officer to the IGP, and Deputy Chief Staff Officer to the IGP.
The others are Deputy Director General CID, Director Research and Planning of the CID, Commandant of the Detective Training Academy and Head of Commercial Crime Unit/CID.
He holds bachelor and master’s degrees from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), University of Ghana and the Ghana School of Law.
Te former CID boss is also a graduate of The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) National academy in Quantico in the USA. He is married with 4 children.
