Online CV

1.0 Education

    - ADVANCED LEVEL II SECURITY SECTOR REFORM COURSE

Swiss Inter-Departmental Working Group on SSR in Association with the International Security Sector Advisory Team of the     Geneva Centre for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces, Military Institution, Cert/Diplo, 11/11/2013 - 15/11/2013

    - SECURITY SECTOR REFORM COURSE

Kofi Annan International Peacekeeping Training Centre, Other, Cert/Diplo, 11/03/2013 - 22/03/2013

   

- MSc in SECURITY, CONFLICT AND INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT

University of Leicester, University/Tertiary, Master's, 04/03/2013 - ongoing

   

- DIPLOMA IN POLICE AND LAW ENFORCEMENT STUDIES

Ghana Police College, Police Institution, Cert/Diplo, 02/11/2006 - 11/05/2007

   

- BSc BUILDING TECHNOLOGY

Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, University/Tertiary, Bachelor's, 01/09/1994 - 01/09/1999

   

-GCE ADVANCED LEVEL CERTIFICATE: GEOGRAPHY, ECONOMICS, MATHEMATICS

Tamale Secondary School, Secondary/High School, HS Diploma, 01/09/1991 - 01/08/1993

   

- GCE ORDINARY LEVEL CERTIFICATE WITH DISTINCTION: GEOGRAPHY, ECONOMICS, MATHEMATICS, FRENCH

Walewale Secondary Technical School, Secondary/High School, HS Diploma, 01/06/1986 - 20/06/1991

- UNITED NATIONS SKILLS-BASED TRAINING COURSES

    French Language: How to Write Well, 02/11/2013

    French Laungauge for Diplomacy and International Relations, 15/10/2013

    French Language: Public Speaking, 13/10/2013

    Peacekeeping and International Conflict Resolution, 23/05/2013

    United Nations Police: Restoring Civil Order Following Hostilities, 02/01/2013

    Effective Team-building Strategies, 29/12/2012

    Team and Customer Relationships, 28/12/2012

    Results and Teamwork without Authority, 26/12/2012

    Communcation Business Etiquette, 10/12/2012

    Getting Past Clashes: Valuing Team Diversity, 03/12/2012

    Planning a Diversity Initiative, 01/12/2012

    Business Etiquette for Supervisors, 28/11/2012

    Standard Business Etiquette, 22/11/2012

    Organisational Scope of Critical Thinking, 16/11/2012

    The Facilitative Leader, 15/11/2012

    Getting Results by Building Relationships, 13/11/2012

    The Communication of a Shared Vision, 12/11/2012

    Leading without Authority, 09/11/2012

    Ethics and professional knowledge, 06/11/2012

- OTHER SKILLS TRAINING

University of Leicester Online Networking and Employability Award, 04/012014 to 28/03/2014

2.0 Employment History

EMPLOYER: GHANA POLICE SERVICE

POST: PROJECTS OFFICER

EMPLOYER’S PHONE: +2330302761252

EMPLOYER’S WEBSITE: www.ghanapolice.info

NAME OF SUPERVISOR:  Mr. Joseph Sika-Nartey

DUTIES AND RESONSIBILITIES:

1. Secondment to United Nations Peacekeeping in Côte D'Ivoire (November 2011 to November 2013) :

From 29th November 2011 to date, I have been on peacekeeping mission with the  Police Component  of the United Nations Operation in Cote D'Ivoire (UNOCI). Upon arrival in the mission in November 2011, I was sent to the Seguela UNPOL Post where I worked as advisor until April 2013 when, following completion of a Security Sector Reform Course, I was transferred to the Reform and Restructuring Unit in Abidjan. In the two duty stations (Seguela Post and RR Unit), I have performed the following duties:

i) In the Reform and Restructuring Unit (April 2013 to November 2013):

I represent UNPOL in the SSR technical group comprising Ivorian government representatives backed by international experts with representation from UNDP. The group is a project team that is working to develop a detailed plan of action to guide the state in implementing police reforms. My supervisor in the Reform Unit is the Head of the Police Component of UNOCI, Mr. Constant Prosper Sossou (+22506206183).

ii) Duties at the Seguela Post (November 2011 to April 2013):

(a)          Training of Ivorian police and gendarmerie officers;

(b)          Assisting local police in conducting investigations and routine patrols, and in generally carrying out their duties in a professional manner with due respect for human rights, gender and modern policing standards;

(c)           Advising political heads, administrative and traditional leaders on matters pertaining to post-conflict peacebuilding;

(d)          Monitoring Embargo on arms, suspected war criminals and diamonds,

My supervisor at the Seguela Post was the Head of Post, Mr. Gbaguidi Gaston (+22567718026)

2. Work within the Ghana Police Service Prior to deployment on UN Peacekeeping (November 2003 to November 2011):

i) Preparing briefs, advising on feasibility and costs, and serving as special assistant to high-level panels and project teams working on police transformation programmes;

ii) Training police recruits;

iii) General policing and command functions.

My supervisor in the Ghana Police Service Projects Unit is the Director of Projects, Mr. Joseph Sika-Nartey (+233(0)542402113)

ACHIEVEMENTS ON UN PEACEKEEPING MISSION:

1.            Police Reform Project: Between April and November 2013, my team and I have brainstormed, researched, analysed and compiled documentation on the Plan of Action to guide the Ivorian government in implementing the post-conflict police reforms. Divided into nine groups and corresponding with the thematic areas delineated by an audit of the police force in 2012, the group has carried the project to its final stages. Documentation has been compiled covering Legal Framework through to Communication Strategy, and the draft blueprint is now awaiting government validation. In the meantime I am attached to the ONUCI-UNPOL office of the West Africa Coast Initiative (WACI), which deals with transnational organised crime in the sub-region, where I am responsible for translation of English documents into French, and vice versa, and also for technical issues relating to the mission of the unit.

2.            Training and capacity building of Ivorian police personnel: Between September 2012 and March 2013 when UNOCI launched the training programme in the sectors, I have successfully trained about fifty Ivorian police and gendarmerie personnel, including senior commanders, on subjects relevant to the post-conflict peacebuilding process, including  Human Rights, Sexual and Gender-Based Violence; Professional Policing Ethics;  Elections; Basic Information Technology Skills.

3.            General Peacebuilding works: Between December 2011 and April 2013, I have held community meetings with the chiefs and people of towns and villages in and around Seguela, the seat of the erstwhile Force Nouvelles rebellion that engaged the government in the conflict. In the framework of a peace campaign by the mission dubbed ONUCI Tour, I visited several communities some of my speeches and meetings were covered by the ONUCI public relations office in their journals.

4.            Special assistance to ONUCI partners: I assisted in coordinating the field visits of the Kimberley Process teams and the Group of Friends of Côte d’Ivoire (comprising ambassadors of the United States, the European Union, Brazil, Canada and Great Britain). I was the focal point for the work of the UN Group of Experts in relation to the diamond embargo.

ACHIEVEMENTS OUTSIDE UN PEACEKEEPING:

5.              In 2010 I special assistant and record keeper to the inter-departmental matrix programme management team set up at the Ghana Police Headquarters and tasked with putting in place the relevant framework for a massive recruitment exercise that aimed at doubling the national police strength to meet UN standards of the police-to-public ratio. This was an essential part of the five-year strategic plan to reform the Ghanaian police

6.            I played a similar role in a similar programme management team to revamp, retool and restructure the Police Workshop System nationwide in the combat against highway robbery. It included managing the design, construction, equipping  existing and newly created workshops, with mobile workshops on call to service vehicles  on highways throughout the country; as well as the sourcing of funds for this project;

7.            I successfully trained about two hundred police recruits who are now practicing police officers;

8.            I commanded peace operations in the Alavanyo ethnic conflict region and the Bimbillah chieftaincy dispute.

9.            I was assigned Chief Detail to manage the presidential entourage and the local assisting team for the president of Western Sahara during the African Union Summit in Accra in 2007;

10.          As academic achievements, I won a national student excellence award; I was also awarded Best Officer in Law Subjects in police college.

3.0 Membership of Professional Body:

PRINCE 2 (PRACTITIONER) CERTIFICATE

4.0 References:

REFERENCE 1:

Dr. Eleanor Gordon

Teaching Fellow

Department of Criminology

University of Leicester

Tel: +44 0116 252 3989

Email: eg132@leicester.ac.uk

REFERENCE 2:

Col. Ali Mohamed Robleh

Chief of Staff UNPOL

United Nations Operation in Cote d’Ivoire

Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire

Tel: +22506205864

Email: al.robleh@gmail.com

REFERENCE 3:

Mr. Samuel Monney

Programme Manager UNPOL

United Nations Mission in Liberia (UNMIL)

Tel: +231777009009

Email: s_monney@yahoo.com

4. Languages

English – Proficient

French – Proficient

Arabic – Basic

5. Digital skills

Microsoft Office Suit

Links:

Linkedin URL: www.linkedin.com/pub/ishaq-ibrahim/4b/7a/373

I am active on the SSR Community of Practice at http://issat.dcaf.ch/Home/Community-of-Practice/Forum