Patrick Darko Missah

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Patrick Darko Missah
Director General of the Ghana Prisons Service
President Nana Akuffo-Addo
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Born Ghana
Nationality Ghanaian
Alma mater University of Ghana, GIMPA
OccupationPrison Officer
ProfessionAgriculturalist

Patrick Darko Missah is a Ghanaian agriculturalist and human resource person. He has been a prison officer since 1989 and was appointed in 2017 by President Nana Akuffo-Addo as the Director General of the Ghana Prisons Service. [1]

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Early life and education

Missah had his secondary education at Suhum Secondary Technical School, where he obtained his O level certificate and proceeded to Ofori Panin Secondary School for his A level education. He holds a bachelor's and master's degree in agriculture from the University of Ghana. Darko Missah has diplomas in human resource management and agricultural administration from the Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration. [2]

Working life

Patrick Missah joined the Ghana Prisons Service in 1989 as a superior corporal. [3] Due to his background in agriculture, his first posting in the service was as the Officer-In-Charge of the Agriculture Unit at the Nsawam Medium Security Prison till 1991. In 2002 he was Chief Agriculture Officer of the service till 2006. He completed his Master of Philosophy in Agricultural Extension at the University of Ghana in 2009. He rose through the ranks from Assistant Superintendent of Prisons to a Deputy Controller. His years in the service resulted in him participating in various correctional and leadership training programmes including Emergency Management Response Training at the International Corrections Management Training Centre in Colorado. [4] Patrick Missah has headed several medium to high security prisons in Ghana including James Camp Prisons in Accra and Sekondi Central Prisons. He was the Western Regional Commander of the Ghana Prisons Service before being made a Deputy Director of Prisons in charge operations. [3] As deputy director in charge of operations, he brought the plight of the prisons service and inmate to national attention when he cited the levels of congestion in prisons. He made known that the Nsawam prison which was to house 717 inmates had 3,747 which was a 340 percentage increase. [5] In 2015, John Dramani Mahama promoted him along with sixteen other superior officer to the level of Director of Prisons. [6]

Director of prisons

In March 2017, President Akuffo-Addo appointed Patrick Missah as the Acting Director General of the Ghana Prisons Service in pursuant of Ghana Prisons Act of the Constitution of Ghana. [7] He replaced Emmanuel Yao Adzator was reassigned from the service. [8] [9] Patrick Missah's was made the substantive director general of the service in February 2018. [10] During his induction service, he promised to improve the operations standards of the prisons service by increasing collaboration with both public and private institutions. [10]

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  2. ↑ Frimpong, Enoch Darfah. "Patrick Darko Missah appointed acting Director General of Prisons". Graphic Online. Retrieved 2018-05-23.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 "Directorates". www.ghanaprisons.gov.gh. Retrieved 2018-05-23.
  4. ↑ "Akufo-Addo appoints Patrick Darko Missah as acting Director-General of Prisons". 2017-04-05. Retrieved 2018-05-23.
  5. ↑ "No Meat In Prisoners' Soup, No Sugar In 'Koko' - The Ghanaian Times". www.ghanaiantimes.com.gh. Archived from the original on 2018-05-24. Retrieved 2018-05-23.
  6. ↑ "Superior Officers In Ghana Prisons Service Promoted - Government of Ghana". www.ghana.gov.gh. Retrieved 2018-05-23.
  7. ↑ Online, Peace FM. "Patrick Missah Is New Prisons Boss" . Retrieved 2018-05-23.
  8. ↑ "Prez. Akufo-Addo appoints DOP Patrick Darko Missah as prisons boss". 233times.com. Retrieved 2018-05-23.
  9. ↑ "Darko Missah Is New Director General Of Prisons - Daily Guide Africa". dailyguideafrica.com. Retrieved 2018-05-23.
  10. 1 2 Afful, Henrietta. "Patrick Missah officially inducted as New DG of Prisons Service". www.gbcghana.com. Retrieved 2018-05-23.
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Emmanuel Yao Adzator 		Ghana
2017 -		Incumbent
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