Mr. Samuel Appiah Darko

The Director, Strategy, Research & Communication Division

Samuel Appiah Darko is the Director of the Strategy, Research & Communication Division, which is equivalent in rank to Commissioner of Police. He assumed office on 3 May 2022.

Mr. Darko has over 15 years’ experience in media. He is also a lawyer and an academic.

Samuel Appiah Darko began his career as a journalist. He was the BBC Correspondent in Accra for 5 years. He consulted for and trained staff of several reputable companies on news reporting, media law and media relations.

He was a senior associate at Cromwell Gray LLP, a law firm operating from Ghana. He specialized in litigation, criminal law, administrative law, media law, security law, and family law. He was also an intelligence officer for Africa Risk Consulting. 

He was a lecturer in media law and communications at the University of Professional Studies (UPSA) and Wisconsin International University College in Accra.

He played an influential role as a member of the committee that set up the masters programme in Peace, Security and Intelligence Management (MPSI) at UPSA, and served as coordinator for the Media and Website Unit and the MPSI course.

Mr. Darko is a prolific writer, with contributions in many academic and professional publications.

He holds a Master of Arts in Gender, Peace, and Security Studies from the Kofi Annan International Peacekeeping Training Centre, Accra; a Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.) from the Faculty of Law at the Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration (GIMPA); and a Bachelor of Arts in Communication Studies with First Class Honours from the University of Ghana.

In May 2024, he successfully completed the Executive Programme on Public Corruption Turnarounds at the Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford, with a focus on strategies for combating and reversing corruption in the public sector.

Additionally, he possesses a Certificate in Multimedia Broadcasting awarded by the BBC Academy, College of Journalism, London.

He had his professional law studies at the Ghana School of Law, and he was called to the Ghana Bar in 2017.

He is a member of the Ghana Bar Association, the University Teachers Association of Ghana, and the Ghana Journalists Association.