COP KWASI MENSAH DUKU RETIRES AFTER 31 YEARS IN POLICE SERVICE.
COP Kwasi Mensah Duku, the Ashanti Regional Police Commander has shared his 31 years of experience in the Ghana Police Service.
In a conversation monitored by Alrich24newsgh.com, COP Mensah Duku said he was born in Goaso and started his basic education there in the Ahafo Region. He continued to Dormaa and Tarkwa Secondary Schools respectively for his secondary education.
After which he pursued Accounting studies at the polytechnic and later furthered at the University of Ghana-Legon.
Upon completion, he worked with Great Africa Insurance Company in Accra as an Internal Auditor and later move to Agriculture Development Bank now ADB as Finance Officer.
COP Akwasi Mensah Duku will soon retire from the police service when he joined in 1991 as a pay officer at Akwapim and later enrolled in the general police duties at Dodowa as the District Police Commander in Accra for 3 years.
He was selected among the Police officers who went for United Nations UN Missions for peacekeeping activities in the Eastimore for over a year.
From the UN missions, he was posted to Akim Oda as the District Police Commander and later transferred to Madina as District Commander in Accra for three years and again transferred to Adabraka for two years.
He continued at the Ministries as a Divisional Commander for three years and moved to Tesano.
From Accra, he was moved to Ashanti Region as the Deputy Regional Police Commander.
He then went to Upper West as the Regional Police Commander for four years and afterwards transferred to Western Region in the same capacity as Police Commander for the region and spent there two years.
He came back to Ashanti Region as a substantive Regional Commander and on July 1st, 2019, President Nana Akufo Addo promoted him from the Deputy Commissioner of Police DCOP to Commissioner of Police COP.
COP Mensah Duku, will by the middle of July 2021, bring his Service in the Police to an end.
In his speech took the opportunity to advise the general public to support the police service since the government cannot bear it alone. He said policing is a collective responsibility of all which we should all collaborate with the police to trace perpetrators of crime to eliminate them from our communities.
COP Akwasi Duku encouraged the well-endowed citizens in the country in the various communities to take up the challenge to build police stations to support their communities to help reduce the crime rate in the country.
He, therefore, thanked God Almighty for the strength given him to bring him to this far as his services in the Police Service for the past 31 years has come to an end.
Concluded that he did his best to maintain calm and order in the Ashanti Region as a Commissioner of Police but the public will be the best judge of the work he executed in terms of security as far as the Ashanti Region is concerned.
Story by Opamago Paparichy.
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