Ernest Owusu-Poku

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office = Inspector General of Police
term_start = January 22, 2001
term_end = July 21, 2001
president = John Kufuor
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successor = Nana Owusu-Nsiah
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Ernest Owusu-Poku is a former Inspector General of Police of the Ghana Police Service (IGP).

Early life and education

Ernest Owusu-Poku hails from Kenyasi in the Brong Ahafo Region of Ghana. He is a graduate of the University of Ghana, Legon.cite news |url=http://www.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/NewsArchive/artikel.php?ID=13173 |title= Owusu Poku Succeeds Nanfuri As IGP |accessdate=2007-06-09 |work=General News of Tuesday, 23 January 2001 |publisher=Ghana Home Page]

Career

Owusu-Poku joined the Ghana Police Service in July 1965. He served as an administrator with the Special Branch in 1970. He had risen to the position of Superintendent by 1974. He became a Commissioner of Police in 1987. He has been seconded to the Ministry of Interior in the past where he coordinated duties of some security agencies including the Police, Immigration, Prisons, Fire services and the Narcotics Control Board. He was the secretary to the Justice Archer Commission into Police affairs between 1997 and 1999. Prior to his appointment as the IGP, he was the Director of Passports at the Passports Office in Ghana. On starting his first term as President of Ghana, John Kufuor asked Peter Nanfuri to proceed on leave and Owusu-Poku was then appointed in his stead as the new IGP. He was the most senior Police officer in the service at the time. [cite news |url=http://www.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/NewsArchive/artikel.php?ID=13165 |title=President names Secretary and "Fires" IGP |accessdate=2007-06-09 |work=General News of Tuesday, 23 January 2001 |publisher=Ghana Home Page] Owusu-Poku retired later in 2001 as IGP on reaching the age of 60.

References

External links

* [http://64.226.23.153/images/gallery/old_igp.htm Pictures of former IGPs]

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