30/07/2025
Joyce Afua Kyerewa Buabeng is an Army Captain of the Ghana Armed Forces, with Ghana Military Police Unit. She graduated from the Ghana Military Academy in September 2011 and had the opportunity to attend several career courses on security and policing including: the Young Officers Career Course organized at the Army Combat and Training Schools in 2016 where she emerged as the Best Female Student and Detective Training Course at the Police Detective Training Academy in 2018.
Captain Joyce Buabeng is a former student of Mawuko Girls Senior High School and earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Psychology and Political Science from the University of Ghana in 2017.
As an Investigator at Ghana Military Police and currently the Adjutant at the Ghana Military Police Headquarters, she served two missions in Lebanon as part of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon, where she was deployed as the National Investigations Officer and the Officer Commanding Headquarters Company responsible for investigating and submitting reports on all manner of offences and road traffic accident, among many other responsibilities.
Captain Joyce Buabeng played an active role in an all-female team from the Ghana Military Police who organized the first ever Ghana Military Police Female Seminar. This initiative offered a platform to share best practices and empower the female military personnel to effectively perform their duties in a male-dominated field.
Captain Buabeng has actively participated in several conferences and seminars that focus on issues relating to gender and policing. Notable amongst them is the Operationalising Gender for Peace and Security Operations conference at the Kofi Annan International Peacekeeping Centre in 2016, and the Maiden National Symposium on Forensics and Investigative Science in 2017.
Captain Buabeng is excited to pursue an MSc in Forensic Investigation at the University of Cranfield through the prestigious Chevening scheme. She looks to adopt the knowledge, skill and experiences acquired to build effective and excellent investigative practices within the security sector in Ghana.
