COP Maame Yaa Tiwaa Addo-Danquah MBA, CA, CFA, FACA, FCA

COP Maame Yaa Tiwaa Addo-Danquah (Mrs), is a law enforcement professional with more than 30 years of experience out of which 15 years have been focused on financial crime detection and investigation duties at the Criminal Investigation Department of the Ghana Police Service.

Maame is a Chartered Accountant and a Chartered Forensic Accountant. She holds a Master of Business Administration (Finance Option) Degree from the University of Cape Coast, Ghana. Maame was the Director of Commercial Crime Unit of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) for more than 3 years as well as the Director of CID Trainings for 3 years.

For more than 20 years, Maame has played a leading role in fraud detection and investigations both within the CID, the Public and Private sectors. She has attended over a dozen conferences and training events in financial crime investigations. She has also facilitated in more than 25 training programs in fraud investigations both within Ghana for the Financial Institutions and abroad. Maame was the coordinator of the project at the CID which aims at building capacity of Investigators in financial fraud and cybercrime investigations. She has also been consulted in numerous engagements including the development of Post Chartered Diploma in Forensic Audit for the Institute of Chartered Accountants, Ghana (IGAG). She has been a resource person for the Institute of Chartered Accountants, Ghana’s Continuous Professional Development.

She was the first Commandant of the Ghana Police Command and Staff College, Winneba, the highest training institution of the Ghana Police Service. She has held various appointments in the Ghana Police Service including Ghana Police Hospital Administrator, Head of Police Headquarters Finance, Divisional Commander, Accra Central Division, Ministries, Accra, Deputy Director-General, Police Intelligence and Professional Standards Bureau. Deputy Director-General/CID, the Director-General of the Criminal Investigation Department, the first Woman to be appointed to that position since the inception of the CID in 1948, the Director-General/Welfare Ghana Police Service, the Director-General, Police Professional Standards Bureau. She is a guest resource person at the GIMPA Business School, E-Crime Academy, and the Institute of Chartered Accountants Ghana, Management Development and Productivity Institute (MDPI). And the University of Cape Coast, Department of Forensics. She is the President of the Ghana Police Ladies Association and immediate past President of the Association of Women Accountants, Ghana.

She received the International Association of women Police (IAWP) Leadership Award in Indonesia in 2021. She was also awarded the ‘Sword of Honour’ for being the Best Cadet Officer, Ghana Police College, Course 33 in 1999 and the Best student in Humanities Award, Ghana Police College, Course 331999.

COP Maame Yaa Tiwaa Addo-Danquah (Mrs) is a Fellow of the Association of Certified Chartered Accountants (FCCA), an Associate Member of the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (ACFE) and a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants (FCA), Ghana. She is currently the Executive Director, Economic and Organised Crime Office (EOCO).

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