Elizabeth A. Turay Emerges as Deputy Inspector General of Police

Fatmata Jengbe

By In a latest development during a meeting convened by the Police Council on the 3rd June, 2020 it was decided that Mrs. Elizabeth Augusta Turay has been approved  to be the new Deputy Inspector General of Police (DIG).

Madam Turay joined the Force on the 1st of October 1988 as cadet Assistant Superintendent of Police. Up to her current appointment, she was the Director of Operations.

As Director of Operations, she became the first and only woman in the Force to serve in that capacity.
And on her appointment as DIG, she has again become the first woman to ever ascend to the second highest office/position in the Sierra Leone Police.

In her new position she will be assisting the Inspector General of Police, Ambrose Sovula, to enhance the maintenance of law and order as well as the protection of property in the country.

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