Superintendent Ibrahim Imam Haafiz
- National Imam/ Dept Head Religious Affairs Unit
- Ghana Immigration Service
Superintendent Ibrahim Imam Haafiz works for the Ghana Immigration Service in the Religious Affairs Department, where he provides spiritual leadership and guidance to the personnel. His role focuses on promoting moral values, fostering unity, supporting the well-being of the staff, helping to create a positive and ethically sound working environment across the Service. He also accompanies troops on deployments and operations, conducting pre-deployment briefings and post-deployment debriefings as well as building camaraderie and teamwork within units.
Prior to his current position, Supt. Haafiz served at the Gonokrom Sector Command, as the Border Patrol Commander. In this capacity, he played a critical role in protecting Ghana’s borders where he was responsible for overseeing border security operations. The border patrols are the first line of defense against issues such as smuggling, human trafficking, and irregular migration. He was deeply involved in enforcing immigration laws, implementing border security strategies and safeguarding national security by preventing undocumented migration and illegal cross-border activities.
Supt. Ibrahim Imam Haafiz holds a Bachelor’s degree in Geography and Resource Development and Political Science from the University of Ghana. He further enhanced his expertise with a Master of Arts in International Affairs from Legon Centre for international Affairs and Diplomacy (LECIAD), gaining a comprehensive understanding of both local and global challenges related to International Affairs including but not limited to migration and national security. His diverse experience, which combines operations with spiritual leadership, positions him as a key figure in the Ghana Immigration Service’s efforts to maintain border security while supporting the moral and spiritual needs of its personnel.
Sessions
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Trends in Drugs, Trafficking, SOC and Terrorism – impact across continents
Drugs on the streets seems to be the insoluble societal problem of our age. It destroys lives and permeates every part of society. It makes law breakers of otherwise law-abiding citizens and through their dealers puts them in direct contact with the criminal underbelly of society.
Drugs are the invisible glue that connects organised crime with terrorists, with the city slicker that likes to ‘do a line’ and with the student on campus, just starting out on their life story. Along the way it corrupts officials and politicians, and sucks billions out of the economies of every country it touches. Terrorists gain an unlimited source of revenue and expertise in illicit transfer and laundering of proceeds from illicit transactions.
In this session we will look at any new trends in drug trafficking and look to share any new policy developments and measures that have been successful in countering this evil trade.