IGP Sued by 82 police officers for failing to promote them

Eighty-two (82) police officers who felt unfairly treated by the Ghana Police Service after they finished their studies under the service’s study leave with pay policy have filed a lawsuit against the Attorney General (the first defendant), the Ghana Police Service (the second defendant), and the Inspector General of Police (the third defendant).

Police officers, led by D/Inspector Kofi Osal, who were granted study leave with pay for the 2017–2018 academic year, filed a lawsuit at the High Court of Accra accusing the Ghana Police Service of denying them their justly earned accelerated promotions or admission to the Police College after successfully completing their studies.

Mynewsgh.com sources say they insist that even after duly notifying the Ghana Police Service upon completion of their programs of study and petitioning it to promote them, the police service still failed to promote them notwithstanding the fact that other persons under similar circumstances have been promoted.

The eighty-two police officers noted that the Ghana Police Service engaged in an “unfair and unreasonable exercise of discretion, the failure to uphold the duty to be fair and candid not to act in a capricious or biased manner or be driven by resentment, prejudice and personal dislike on the part of the 2nd[ Ghana Police Service] and 3rd[ the IGP] defendants,” and therefore demand that the Court give “(a) An order directed against the 2nd and 3rd Defendants to grant those amongst them who qualify for accelerated promotions as well as permit all of them to enter the Police College/Academy without any further delay.
(b) Any or further orders as the Honourable Court may deem fit”.

The suit was filed on May 15, 2023, and the Defendants are expected to enter their defense within 8 days after being duly served.

Source: Mynewsgh.com