About Author
Kofi Bentum Quantson was born on July 6, 1934 at Axim in the Western Region of Ghana. After his secondary education at the Clayborn College, Sekondi, he trained as a teacher at the Wesley College, Kumasi, taught for sometime before pursuing further studies at the University of Ghana, Legon in 1962.
He received professional enforcement training at the Police College, now Police Academy, and the erstwhile International Police Academy in Washington D.C.
He later undertook advanced Security – Intelligence studies in several countries including the Soviet Union, the United States of America, Cuba, the United Kingdom and Germany.
Earlier he had worked as a features writer at the National Daily, the Ghanaian Times before joining the Special Branch of the Ghana Police Service, rising to become Director in 1979.
He later became the first Director of the Bureau of National Investigations (BNI), when the Special Branch was reorganized and renamed, Bureau of National Investigations, currently National Intelligence Bureau. While serving as Director / BNI, he was assigned additional responsibility as the Commissioner of Police in charge of the Criminal Investigations Department of the Ghana Police Service.
He received professional enforcement training at the Police College, now Police Academy, and the erstwhile International Police Academy in Washington D.C.
He later undertook advanced Security – Intelligence studies in several countries including the Soviet Union, the United States of America, Cuba, the United Kingdom and Germany.
Earlier he had worked as a features writer at the National Daily, the Ghanaian Times before joining the Special Branch of the Ghana Police Service, rising to become Director in 1979.
He later became the first Director of the Bureau of National Investigations (BNI), when the Special Branch was reorganized and renamed, Bureau of National Investigations, currently National Intelligence Bureau. While serving as Director / BNI, he was assigned additional responsibility as the Commissioner of Police in charge of the Criminal Investigations Department of the Ghana Police Service.
He retired in 1989. In 1990 he was recalled to establish the Narcotics Control Board, now the Narcotics Control Commission becoming the first Executive Secretary. Later he was appointed the National Security Coordinator additional to his position as the Executive Secretary of the Narcotics Control Board.
He has travelled extensively to many countries on duty, study or conferences. These include the Ivory Coast, Nigeria, Senegal, Liberia, Ethiopia, Tunisia, Algeria, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, South Africa, France, Germany, Serbia, the U. K., the USSR, USA, Italy.
On the 40th Anniversary of Ghana’s Independence, 6th March, 1997, he was awarded the Companion of the order of the Volta (CV) Civil Division. For his Meritorious Public Service.
In November, 1990, he was awarded the ECOWAS Drug Control Merit Award “for your outstanding contribution to the war against drug abuse and illicit trafficking in West Africa.”