Emmanuel Yao Adzator is a Ghanaian security expert. He was appointed by President John Dramani Mahama as the director general of the Ghana Prisons Service. He was succeeded by

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in March 2017.

Education

Emmanuel Adzator had his second cycle education at

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. He was admitted to the

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and graduated with a degree in psychology. He holds a diploma in human resource management from the

Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration The Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration (GIMPA) is a public co-educational university spread over four campuses (Accra, Tema, Kumasi and Takoradi) and made up of six schools, ten research centers located at Greenhill in Accra ...

Career

Emmanuel Adzator was enlisted into the Ghana Prisons Service in April 1989. Whiles at the service he had several training in the corrections system including Correctional Reforms, Re-Entry and Reintegration at Joyfields Training Institute in

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and Advanced Prisons Management, from the Galilee Management Institute, Israel. Adzator has headed several prisons in Ghana including

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Local Prisons. He became the Ashanti Regional Regional Prisons Commander. He was the General Staff Officer as well as the Criminal Records Officer at the Prisons Headquarters.

Director General of Ghana Prisons Service

In January 2015 he was promoted from a deputy director of Prisons to Director of Prisons along with other superior prison offices. In March 2016, then President of Ghana, John Mahama, upon the advice of the Prisons Service Council, appointed him as Acting Director General of the Ghana Prisons Service. Prior to his appointment, he was the Deputy Director General of Prisons in charge of Finance and Administration. He was succeeded by Patrick Missah in 2017.

References

Living people People from Volta Region Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration alumni University of Ghana alumni Year of birth missing (living people) Ghanaian Director Generals of Prisons {{Ghana-bio-stub