COP Maame Yaa Tiwaa Addo-Danquah (Mrs), the immediate previous Director-General in Charge of the Police Professional and Standards Bureau, has been ranked among the world's most prominent female police officials.
Tiffany-Victoria Bilon Enriquez of the Honolulu Police Department in Hawaii, Tanya McLachlan of the Vancouver Police Department in British Columbia, Canada, Tara Duffy of the Metropolitan Police Service in the United Kingdom, and Valerie Gates of the Barry Police Service in Ontario, Canada were also named in a statement issued by Deborah Friedl, President of the International Association of Women Police (IAWP).
The renowned female police officers also included Superintendent Vicky Washington, Metropolitan Police, UK, Jackie Reilly, A/Deputy Director, Fleet Supply and Weapons Service Bureau Ontario Provincial Police, Canada, and Sarah Bass, Royal Canadian Mounted Police, Canada.
COP Maame Yaa Tiwaa Addo-Danquah has "distinguished herself by demonstrating a continuing long-term commitment to leadership using exceptional personal skills, leading teams, and team building, developing others, organizational skills, and administration that has an outstanding positive impact within her agency or area of responsibility," according to the IAWP.
"In terms of outcomes, she is a force to be reckoned with." Her interpersonal and relational abilities are exceptional, and she is a role model for everyone. The essence of leadership, she thinks and exhibits is to serve and empower your people.
Her emotional intelligence, forthrightness, and sense of humor appeal to those with whom she works, and as a consequence, achievements are achieved under her leadership in an atmosphere of cooperation and support for all members.
"Commissioner Addo-Danquah is a great addition to the Ghana Police Service," says the statement.