The Ghana National Fire Service operates a centralized administration with a clear rank structure and a well-defined organizational hierarchy. This ensures effective command, control, and communication across all levels of the Service.
Organizational Structure
The Service runs a Centralised Administration with a National Headquarters in Accra and seventeen (17) Service Administrative Regions in all the Political Regions of Ghana. Tema Region makes up the Seventeenth Region.
Each Fire Service Region has Metropolitan, Municipal and District Fire Stations as well as Fire Posts.
The Service also has a Training Institution, the Fire Academy and Training School (FATS), located at James Town in Accra.
To ensure effective and efficient management, the following Directorates have been created in line with the Service’s Act (Act 537):
- Operations
- Finance
- Administration
- Logistics
- Human Resource Development and Training
- Technical Services
- Research, Development and Monitoring
- Policy Planning, Monitoring & Evaluation (PPME)
- Welfare
- Fire Safety
- Accounts
- Legal
- Rural Fires
- Research and IT
- Special Duties
- Health
Other Directorates may be created in line with Act 537 as deemed beneficial to the efficient running of the Service.
Senior Officer Ranks
- Chief Fire Officer (CFO)
- Deputy Chief Fire Officer (DCFO)
- Assistant Chief Fire Officer (ACFO)
- Divisional Officer Grade One (DO I)
- Divisional Officer Grade Two (DO II)
- Divisional Officer Grade Three (DO III)
- Assistant Divisional Officer Grade One (ADO I)
- Assistant Divisional Officer Grade Two (ADO II)
- Cadet Officer (CO)
Junior Officer Ranks
- Station Officer Grade One (STN/OI) / Group Officer Grade One (GO I)
- Station Officer Grade Two (STN/OII) / Group Officer Grade Two (GO II)
- Assistant Station Officer (ASO) / Deputy Group Officer (DGO)
- Subordinate Officer (SUB/O) / Assistant Group Officer (AGO)
- Leading Fireman (LFM) / Leading Firewoman (LFW)
- Senior Fireman (SFM) / Senior Firewoman (SFW)
- Fireman (FM) / Firewoman (FW)
- Recruit Fireman (RFM) / Recruit Firewoman (RFW)