Ranks In The Ghana Police Service

Ranks in the Ghana Police Service

The Ghana Police Service is the main law enforcement agency in Ghana. It is organized at national level and has a unitary command under the Inspector General of Police (IGP). Although there are many regional and divisional commands, they all report to the National Headquarters in Accra.

Policing in Ghana (then the Gold Coast) was originally organized by traditional authorities led by local kings or chiefs. This they did by employing unpaid messengers to carry out executive and judicial functions in their respective communities. Professional policing was introduced by the British Colonial authorities in 1831. The colonial administrator at the time, Captain George Maclean, Governor of the Gold Coast, recruited 129 men to patrol the trade routes between Ashanti Kingdom and the coast and to protect colonial merchants and officials around the castle.

The ranks of Ghanaian police officers are loosely based on that of the British and other Commonwealth police although there are variations.The posts and ranks within the Police service are broadly divided into those of superior officers and subordinate officers or other ranks.

Here are the must known ranks that are available in the Ghana Police Service.

 

Superior officers

• Inspector General of Police
• Deputy Inspector General
• Commissioner
• Deputy Commissioner
• Assistant Commissioner
• Chief Superintendent
• Superintendent
• Deputy Superintendent
• Assistant Superintendent

Subordinate Police Officers

• Chief Inspector
• Inspector
• Sergeant
• Corporal
• Lance Corporal
• Constable

These are the must known ranks that are available in the Ghana Police Service as a force institution.