President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has named  of the head of the General ICT Department Ghana Police Service, COP David Asante-Apeatu as the acting Inspector General of Police (IGP).
He replaces Mr John Kudalor who had been IGP since November 2015.
Having been appointed into an acting capacity in November 2015, Mr Kudalor was confirmed as the substantive IGP by the then President John Mahama in February 2016.
He earlier today [Wednesday], visited the President Akufo-Addo at the Flagstaff House to bid him farewell.
Profile of Mr Asante-Apeatu:
Holding a Masters’ degree in Chemistry from the Kharkov State University in Russia, Mr Asante-Apeatu is a trained Forensic Scientist in various disciplines such as Document Examination, Firearms and Ballistics, and Controlled Drug Analysis.
He has served as Director General of the Ghana Police CID as well as Director General Research and Planning of the service.
Under his supervision and based on intelligence, the CID successfully conducted an operation that resulted in the seizure of 588 kilogrammes of cocaine with the street value of about $38 million.
He was also the Lead Investigator during investigations into the serial killing of more than 30 women that led to the arrest of a culprit who was prosecuted, convicted and sentenced to death.
He is a Government of Ghana gazetted Firearms Examiner and also a gazetted Controlled Drug Analyst.
Internationally, he has served Director of the Specialised Crime and Analysis (SCA) Unit at the INTERPOL headquarters in Lyon France.
Mr Asante-Apeatu has also worked at the Sarajevo Police Academy as an Instructor in Human Dignity, Police Ethics and Criminal Investigations under the auspices of the United Nations Task Force in Bosnia-Herzegovina from 1997 to 1998.
He was the team leader in a successful homicide investigation under the request of the United Nations Mission in Liberia (UNAMIL).
He was the team leader in investigations into the mass murder of more than 50 people, mostly West African nationals, in The Gambia.