The Inspector General of Police (IGP), Dr. George Akuffo Dampare, has denied allegations of withholding promotions from eligible officers.

In recent developments, 82 dissatisfied police officers filed a lawsuit against the Attorney General, the Ghana Police Service, and the IGP, alleging unjust and arbitrary conduct regarding their overdue promotions within the Ghana Police Service.

These officers contend that, following their studies under the study leave with pay policy, they were entitled to promotions. Nevertheless, despite several months having passed since the completion of their studies, they have not received the expected promotions.

Contrary to these assertions, Dr. Dampare has firmly rejected these accusations, asserting that the Ghana Police Service has indeed promoted all eligible officers as per the established criteria.

“There is no hold up of promotion of any junior officer in the whole police service,” he said. “Even as we speak, the structure has been that any junior officer who is four years is sent to training and they are promoted. And they are waiting to promote the next set of officers who are due for promotion…So nobody in the service whose promotion is being held. So that is another set of concocted stories which is being put out there for mischievous reasons.”

“So everybody who is supposed to be promoted based on the junior rank has been done and everybody who is supposed to be promoted based on the senior rank have been promoted and that is where we are,” he stated.