Outgoing Director-General of the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) of the Ghana Police Service, COP Maame Yaa Tiwaa Addo-Danquah has penned a lovely farewell message to the department as she takes on a new position today, January 15th, 2020.
COP Addo-Danquah is a part of the 24 senior police officers reassigned by the Inspector General of Police, James Oppong-Boanuh on January 3rd, 2020.
Tiwaa now operates as the Director-General in-charge of Welfare at the Ghana Police Service.
In the message sighted by Jivegh.com, Tiwaa expressed a plethora of emotions as she bid her colleagues goodbye.
Her message read;
“I have today 15th January 2020 handed over the Command of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) to COP/Mr Ken Yeboah.
Wow! It has been fascinating and breathtaking within this period especially last week considering the messages and phone calls I have received from some of you.
I must say it has been full of emotions and mixed feelings for me but how can words alone express my sincere gratitude to all of you? How do I make you understand how much I want to express my gratefulness to all personnel of the CID? It has been such an amazing experience working with you to serve God and Country. I hope this simple thank you message of mine finds its way into your hearts and memories just as yours have found their ways into mine.
The celebrated English playwright, William Shakespeare once said, “All the world is a stage and all men are merely players. They have their entrances and their exits…” so I became the Director-General of the CID when I least expected it. But again, just like William Shakespeare said that all the world is a stage and all men are merely players, I only tried to play my parts to the best of my abilities.
In fact, I did not expect my exit from the CID directorate to generate emotional reactions and mixed feelings as I am experiencing now but the book of Ecclesiastes reminds us about the fact that there is time for everything. Just as I came to the CID as its Director-General, I ought to go because the time is certainly up. It’s time to exit for another to come but am I really gone?
I don’t think I have gone anywhere. I am only moving from the CID directorate to another directorate where I will have the opportunity to take care of both CID and uniform personnel so I have not gone anywhere actually. I am still with you just as we have been together all these years.
This week has been one of my sober moments of reflections in my life. Throughout my policing career, I have never felt worthy and proud of myself more than these few days since it was announced that I have been rescheduled to Welfare as the Director-General. I probably didn’t know myself too well until these few days and I must say that I am really humbled.
I think I have underestimated my potentials and capabilities until these few days when you made me believe that I can actually make my good better and my better best in all my endeavours. The hopes and the confidence you have expressed in me really make me humble. It also tells me that I actually have what it takes to touch more lives especially those who are depressed and broken.
Your messages and phone calls really means a lot to me and I promise to keep good memories of them wherever I go.
I have been very emotional. I read some of them with teary eyes. Honestly, I felt I was doing my normal policing work but little did I know that I was touching so many lives without realizing it. Trust me that I least expected that my normal self could touch so many lives more especially CID personnel. If I had actually known that I have what it takes to touch lives per the messages and phone calls I have and continues to receive from some of you, then I would have increased the pace.
The messages have been enormous. I have read every bit of your messages. Some of you wish I stay a little bit longer but that is where I disagree with you. I actually have to go wherever my services are needed. I think we rather have to celebrate our successes together. We should share the moments of joy and happiness we had when working together. We should look at the things we accomplished together and be proud of ourselves. We should look at how we overrode the storms that we faced at high seas as far as the affairs of the CID are concerned but we still managed to paddle our canoes to safety despite all odds.
In fact, I have always anticipated leaving the CID and so I lived my life as if every day was my last day as the Director-General of the CID.
I know that the most valuable asset of every organization is its human capital so I always try in my little efforts to ensure that there is that conducive environment for personnel to work. I also try to pay particular attention to their problems and complaints. That act my normal self and I always try to first do unto others what I want them to do unto me.
Let me seize this golden opportunity to thank those who first of all had hopes and confidence in me thereby offered me the opportunity to head the CID as the Director-General. It was an honour they did to me and I really appreciate it.
Since the inception of the CID, Becoming the first women substantive head of the CID for more than 2 years came with lots of challenges. With your support and efforts, we turned lots of our challenges into success stories and it is this reason that I believe you should celebrate together if I had succeeded, it is all because of your support.
I will also take this opportunity to thank the current IGP for reposing confidence in me by rescheduling me to the Welfare directorate. It is another honour bestowed on me and so I am grateful. I am prepared to take up the challenge. Just as my normal self was able to touch many depressed and broken souls at the CID, I still hope that I can contribute my very best to the welfare directorate. I see it as a higher call for duty which I must prepare myself psychological and physically for and I must say that some messages I have already received inspire me a lot.
Lastly, because I am human, I might have wronged some of you in one way or the other. I sincerely apologize and ask for your forgiveness. They were not personal It’ happened because of the work and nothing more. We couldn’t have stayed together without having some little differences and misunderstandings but we should be able to bury our differences and forge ahead I also want to say that I have nothing against anybody who feel they might have wronged me. We needed to work together and once the work is done, we have no choice than to reconcile.
I urge you to extend the same love and support to the new DG/CID you offered me, I am of a strong conviction that you will achieve a lot more together with him. It is actually time not to relent in your efforts, commitments and dedications to duty.
Since I don’t have the words to express my gratitudes and appreciations to you for the love and the support offered me, I simply chose to say THANK YOU and GOD BLESS you all. ?????????
Still keep the fire burning ????”
