Ernest Ako

{{Short description|Ghanaian police officer (1923–2021)}}

Ernest Ako (14 February 1923 – 16 January 2021){{cite news|url=https://www.myjoyonline.com/ernest-ako-former-igp/|title=Ernest Ako (Former IGP)|work=Joy FM|date=2021-05-14|access-date=2022-02-07}} was a Ghanaian police officer and was the Inspector General of Police of the Ghana Police Service from 30 September 1974 to 17 July 1978.{{Cite book |last=Singh |first=Naunihal |title=Seizing Power: The Strategic Logic of Military Coups |publisher=JHU Press |date=29 May 2014 |page=102 |isbn=978-1-4214-1336-5 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7VvCAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA102}}{{Chronology citation needed|date=February 2016}} He was also Minister of Interior.{{Cite book |last=Reece |first=David |title=A Rich Broth: Memoirs of a Canadian Diplomat |publisher=McGill-Queen's University Press |date=1993 |page=122 |isbn=978-0-8862-9204-1 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UZ1vNq1cygsC&pg=PA122}}{{Cite web |url=http://www.ghanaculture.gov.gh/index1.php?linkid=65&adate=07/03/2007&archiveid=497&page=1 |title=Police Service in retrospect |publisher=National Commission on Culture |date=7 March 2007 |accessdate=7 February 2016}}{{Cite web|date=2021-05-31|title=Ghana’s 6th IGP, Ernest Ako (Rtd) laid to rest|url=https://www.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/NewsArchive/Ghana-s-6th-IGP-Ernest-Ako-Rtd-laid-to-rest-1274635|access-date=2021-06-01|website=GhanaWeb|language=en}}