IGP Dampare is not correct, officers unhappy under him – COP Mensah

The Director of Operations of the Ghana Police Service COP George Alex Mensah has told the parliamentary committee probing an alleged plot to oust the police chief that a lot of police officers are unhappy because the Inspector General of Police, Dr George Akuffo Dampare, is mismanaging the law enforcement body.

“Dampare is not managing the Police Service well and the majority of police officers are not happy”, he claimed on Thursday, 31 August 2023.

COP Mensah was captured on an audiotape recorded by the New Patriotic Party’s Bugri Naabu in an alleged plot to get Dr Dampare removed.

He admitted meeting Mr Naabu on several occasions but denied any ouster plot.

He urged the committee to conduct its own investigation in the Police Service to ascertain if the personnel were happy under Dr Dampare’s administration.

“You can call the police officers underground and they will tell you”.

COP Mensah also said he was a politician and working in the interest of a political party but did not disclose which party that was.

He further claimed the tape, which went viral, had been doctored.

“This tape that was played today, to me was an edited tape, I have not heard any unedited tape for me to talk about as I sit here”, he said.

COP Mensah added: “The tape that I heard today, there are so many things in that tape that I don’t remember and there are so many things that we discussed that are not on the tape”.

“I’ve met Bugri Naabu four times and we have discussed many things some of them private things that I am not ready to discuss in public”.

“I had a meeting with Bugri Naabu but I don’t remember having any plan to remove the IGP because I don’t remove IGPs”, he insisted.