Commissioner of Police (COP), Maame Yaa Tiwaa Addo-Danquah, has officially handed over her position as Director-General of the Police Criminal Investigations Department (CID) and takes office as Police Welfare Department as the Director-General, effective today, 15th January 2020.
She handed over to Commissioner of Police Isaac Ken Yeboah who was the Director-General in charge of Administration.
The outgoing Director-General of the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) of the Ghana Police Service, Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCOP), Maame Yaa Tiwaa Addo-Danquah, was promoted to the rank of Commissioner of Police (COP).
Mrs. Maame Yaa Tiwaa Addo-Danquah was recruited into the Ghana Police Service on July 27, 1990, and has risen through the ranks by dint of hard work and her desire to achieve higher academic laurels.
When she passed out, she was first posted to the Police Hospital Accounts Section as a constable.
After the 18 months’ probation, she was promoted to the rank of a Sergeant in 1992 because she enlisted with a Diploma in Business Studies Accounting Option which she obtained at the Kumasi Polytechnic between 1988 and 1990.
Having been promoted to Sergeant, she enrolled with the Institute of Chartered Accountants, Ghana in 1995 and passed the Level Two examinations successfully and was promoted to Chief Inspector. This granted her a direct entry to the Police College in October 1998.
In May 1999, out of a class of 48 (46 men and two women), she was adjudged the All Round Best Cadet and the Best Student in Humanities making her the second female to take that award at that time.
In recognition of her remarkable accomplishment, a special staff of honour was ordered from the United Kingdom (UK) by the then Inspector General of Police (IGP) which was presented to her by the late Professor Evans Atta Mills who was then the Vice President.
COP Yaa Tiwaa, a second child among seven siblings, was born on August 19, 1969, at Konongo in the Asante Akyem district of the Ashanti Region.
Born to Mr. Kwame Adiya-Nimo and Nana Adwoa Agyekumwaa II, Queen-mother of Banka, she started school at the Roman Catholic Primary and Middle Schools.
She had her secondary education at the Bompata Secondary before enrolling at the Kumasi Polytechnic.
She is married to Mr. Ofosu Addo-Danquah, a lecturer at the Department of French at the University of Cape Coast.
She has a daughter and two sons.
DCOP Yaa Tiwaa who is a die-hard Catholic worships with the St Peter’s Parish at Osu.
Source: Kofi Atakora
