DCOP Faustina Agyeiwaa Kodua Andoh-Kwofie has been appointed as the new head of the Criminal Investigative Department (CID) of the Ghana Police Service.
She rose to her position following the retirement of the former CID boss, COP Isaac Ken Yeboah after turning 60 years old.
COP Yeboah officially stepped down at a ceremony held Thursday, September 22nd 2022 at the National Police Training School in Accra.
Dignitaries in attendance included Inspector-General of Police, George Akuffo Dampare, former IGPs – Patrick Acheampong and David Asante-Apeatu, former COPs and senior police officers among others.
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Prior to being named the head of the Criminal Investigations Department (CID), DCOP Andoh-Kwofie served as the head of the Intelligence Department of the Ghana Police Service.
Until her elevation last year to head the Intelligence Department, she was the Director in charge of the Commercial Crime Unit under the CID at the National Police Headquarters.
Her duties at her former office included leading and directing investigations into fraudulent transactions such as money laundering.
DCOP Kwofie-Andoh was enlisted into the service on October 1, 1992, and passed out on October 1, 1993 as a Constable. She has over 29 years of experience in the service.
Andoh is a trained lawyer. She holds a Bachelor of Laws (BL) from the Ghana Law School and an LLB from the University of Ghana. She was called to the Bar in 2013.
Other qualifications include an MA in International Relations, MBA in Human Resource from the University of Ghana, MSc Criminology & Criminal Justice-University of Portsmouth, UK, and a Bachelor of Education in Psychology, University of Cape Coast.
She has four academic research works to her credit. ACP Andoh-Kwofie had her secondary education at St Monica’s Secondary School and Nsutaman Catholic Secondary where she was the Assistant Head Girl from 1990 to 1991 and the Girls Prefect from 1988 to 1989 respectively.
Currently, she is the Vice-President of the Nsutaman Old Students Association (NOSA).
Andoh is a member of the International Police Women Association.
She was a member of a task force that drafted a national action plan for the Elimination of Child Labour in 2007 at Sogakope and was also a member of a committee that was set up by the then IGP Kwarteng Acheampong to review the syllabi used by the Ghana Police College in 2007 and a member of Police UN & UN Mission selection text team in 2007.
She has also been a Board member for Africa Centre for Counter-Terrorism since 2016.
DCOP Faustina Agyeiwaa Kodua Andoh-Kwofie hails from Kwamang in the Sekyere Central District of the Ashanti Region. She is a Presbyterian and a mother of two boys.
Source: theGhanaianVoice.Com