The string of eyebrow raising actions in state institutions has infected the Ghana Police Service too as a long list of establishment favourites await promotion in the next few days.
The elevation is threatening morale in this quasi-regimental institution responsible for internal security.
That this is happening at the eleventh hour when it is obvious that many top brass cops who are on contract including the Inspector General of Police (IGP) are due to retire with the change of the political guard in the country, prompts questions about the motive.
For serving officers, especially those on the dislike list, the action is intended to serve as a gratitude to cops who touched the hearts of the big political figures or the Police administration.
It is not known how the incoming Akufo-Addo administration is going to treat this seeming anomaly – the promotion galore now a phenomenon across state institutions.
Officers who were promoted in the twilight of the Kufuor administration had their elevations nullified by the incoming Mills government when it took over the reins of government, it would be recalled: this offers a ready precedence to Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia who would chair the Police Council after the baton-change on January 7th.
DAILY GUIDE has gathered that twenty or so cops are going to benefit from the Kudalor and Amissah-Arthur chaired Police Council largesse.
Chief Superintendent Michael Jeku, Director of the National Police Patrol Department is due to move to the next rank of Assistant Commissioner of Police.
The Chief Staff Officer Chief Superintendent Obed Jekunu moves to the rank of Assistant Commissioner of Police while Rev Superintendent Adani Ameyaw of the Manhyia Division in Kumasi is being promoted to the rank of Chief Superintendent.
Chief Superintendent Avevor of the Police Consumer Scheme Unit heads for Assistant Commissioner of Police among others.
There are officers who have been on their present ranks for five or six years without being considered. Not so however for others who are in the good books of the establishment or even politicians at the helm. For these senior officers, the excuse has always been ‘there is no vacancy.’
The Director of the Public Relations Directorate of the Ghana Police Service, Superintendent Cephas Arthur, has been penciled to move to the next rank of Chief Superintendent, promotion which his colleagues consider too generous and unusual. He has had rapid promotion even as his colleagues, to use the street expression, ‘mark time’ on their current ranks.
For the rank and file, most of them have had their promotions withheld.
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