Effia Tenge Heads For Parliament After Resignation

Superintendent of Police, Effia Tenge, has resigned from the Ghana Police Service (GPS), having taken an appointment in Parliament to head the newly formed Directorate of Media Relations, which has been carved out of the Public Affairs Department. She worked for the GPS for 18 years, rising through the ranks from Inspector to Superintendent and managing the service’s public relations at different levels. Until her resignation, Supt.

Tenge was in charge of Public Affairs Department at the Volta Regional Police Command. She joined the service in 2005 and worked at the Media Monitoring Centre of the Police Public Affairs Directorate at the national headquarters. She was moved to the Accra Regional Police Command in 2014 and still worked at the Public Affairs Department before taking to the Volta Region in August 2021.

The police officer, who was instrumental in the introduction of the Police Regional News Magazine dubbed “Police Diary,” was said to have tendered in her acceptance letter of the new appointment on February 28, 2023, but requested a month grace period to settle things with her former institution to begin work on April 3, 2023. She will meet Kate Addo, the Director of the Public Affairs Department, who will be in charge of the newly established Broadcasting Department.