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Unconfirmed reports received indicates that ACP Kofi Boakye, the former Director General of Police Operations has been reinstated into the Police service. This followed a high powered Police Council Meeting chaired by the Vice President John Mahama at the castle on Wednesday, October 07. The Interior Minister, Cletus Avorka is expected to issue an official letter to ACP Boakye to that effect. The letter is expected to explain the circumstances under which he was reinstated. ACP Boakye has been on leave since he was caught-up in a massive cocaine scandal that nearly brought down a number of top Police Chiefs under then IGP, Patrick Kwateng Acheampong. The erstwhile Kufuor administration ordered ACP Boakye to proceed on leave long before the Justice Wood Commission indicted him over the infamous MV Benjamin Cocaine case. It followed a meeting he held in his official residence with some high profile cocaine suspects over the MV Benjamin Cocaine case. But shortly before leaving office, President John Kufour directed the Police Council to reinstate ACP Kofi Boakye into the Police Service. That Directive has still not been followed. A new Police Council under the Chairmanship of Vice President John Dramani Mahama met in Accra on Wednesday to take a decision on the matter. Already, the Mills administration has reinstated former Director of Operations of the Narcotics Control Board, Mr Ben Ndego to his post. Mr Ndego was one of the key people within the security setup, whose name was linked to the high profile cocaine scandals that hit Ghana in 2006. He recently returned to Ghana from a self imposed exile in the UK. Also an Appeals Court in Accra recently overturned the jail sentences handed down to Alhaji Issah Abass and Kwabena Amaning alias Tagor -- the only two people to have been convicted in the aftermath of the MV Benjamin Cocaine case.