{"id":288904,"date":"2017-01-27T17:59:43","date_gmt":"2017-01-27T17:59:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=288904"},"modified":"2017-01-27T17:59:43","modified_gmt":"2017-01-27T17:59:43","slug":"new-igp-makes-first-shake-up-cop-agblor-moved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=288904","title":{"rendered":"New IGP makes first shake-up; COP Agblor moved"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The new acting Inspector General of Police (IGP), David Asante-Apeatu, has made significant changes at the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) of the Police Service, a unit he once headed.<\/p>\n<p>The current Director-General of the CID, COP Prosper Agblor, has been moved to head the Special Duties Department as the Director General, and his Deputy, ACP Dennis Ako-Dem, has also been moved to the Special Duties Department.<\/p>\n<p>DCOP Bright Oduro, who is the Director General;Welfare, \u00a0has now been appointed Director General of the CID.<\/p>\n<p>ACP Maame Yaa Tiwaa Addo Danquah, who previously headed the police command and staff college, and moved to the ministries divisional police command, and finally at PIPS within a space of seven months, has now been appointed second in command at the CID.<\/p>\n<p>Sources close to the situation have further hinted that, more postings and reshuffling of senior police officers should be expected in the coming days.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Akufo-Addo names COP Asante-Apeatu as new IGP<\/strong><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_288237\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-288237\" style=\"width: 620px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-288237\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/IGP-2-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"Ag. IGP David Asante-Apeatu\" width=\"620\" height=\"413\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-288237\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ag. IGP David Asante-Apeatu<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo on Wednesday January 25, named COP David Asante-Apeatu as the acting Inspector General of Police (IGP).<\/p>\n<p>The former IGP, John Kudalor earlier today (Wednesday), went to the Flagstaff House to bid the president farewell having officially retired from the service.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Kudalor was appointed by former President, John Dramani Mahama to the position in an acting capacity in November 2015.<\/p>\n<p>He was later confirmed IGP in February 2016.<\/p>\n<p>The appointment of \u00a0IGP has been political since independence. A substantive IGP will named subsequently by the President in consultation with the Council of State.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>By: Franklin Badu Jnr\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The new acting Inspector General of Police (IGP), David Asante-Apeatu, has made significant changes at the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) of the Police Service, a unit he once headed. The current Director-General of the CID, COP Prosper Agblor, has been moved to head the Special Duties Department as the Director General, and his Deputy, ACP [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,11],"tags":[3515,3,3516],"class_list":["post-288904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-slider-1","category-top-stories","tag-cop-agblor","tag-ghana-news","tag-igp-shake-up"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288904","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=288904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288904\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=288904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=288904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=288904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}