Security Minister Gen.Elly Tumwine has hailed the outgoing Director General of Internal Security Organization Col Kaka Bagyenda for fighting crimes in the country. Gen Tumwine was speaking at the hand over ceremony at the ISO board room where he praised col Kaka for doing great job in ensuring security and fighting organized crime like murder…
Police have confirmed that one of their own who was captured on video flogging an elderly woman is an Assistant Inspector of Police (AIP) Sam Okiror and has since passed on. Okiror was attached to Mbale Central Police Station as the Field Force Commander. A video has gone viral showing a police officer purported to…
The Uganda People Defence Forces (UPDF) has come out to confirm that Rtd. Col. Frank Kaka Bagyenda, who was the Director General of the Internal Security Organisation (ISO), has since been fired by President Yoweri Museveni. The new changes in the leadership of ISO were confirmed by the UPDF spokesperson Brig. Gen. Flavia Byekwaso, who…
The High court sitting in Kampala yesterday ordered the Chieftaincy of military intelligence (CMI) and Uganda police to unconditionally release Odongo Simon Peter an IT contractor with Internal security organization who is treating life threatening gun wounds at military hospital in Bombo, Luwero district. Justice Michel Elubu in his ruling of this be shaming case…
In September last year, police recruited 4,500 Probation Police Constables (PPCs) and 500 Learner Assistant Inspectors of Police (LAIPs). However, police found hard time when over five hundred of recruits were degree holders yet a maximum qualification for the applicants for the position of police constable was the ordinary level certificate while Learner Assistant Inspector…
The Minister of Defence and Veteran Affairs, Hon. Adolf Mwesige has met the Special Envoy of the Secretary General for the Great Lakes Region, Mr. Huang Xia at the Ministry of Defence headquarters in Mbuya, where they discussed various issues pertaining to the UN Strategy for Peace Consolidation, conflict resolution and prevention in the Great…
Following the most recent ranking of the Uganda Police Force as the “kindest police” in the World, by the world Internal Security and Police Index (WISP), the Inspector General of Police Martin Okoth Ochola has come out to thank all officers who conducted themselves professionally, and with great restraint in the course of their duties.…
Members of Parliament have expressed concern about the continued power black outs in police barracks around the country. This prompted the Speaker, Rebecca Kadaga to direct the Internal Affairs Minister, Gen Jeje Odongo to offer an explanation on the circumstances. Kasambya County MP, Hon. Gaffa Mbwatekamwa said the electricity bills for these barracks have not…
The head of Community Policing Department in the Uganda Police Force, ACP Anatoli Muleterwa, has called upon local authorities in Kigezi region to work hand in hand with security agencies as one way of fighting against the spread of #COVID-19 along border lines. Muleterwa, who was in the company of SP Cyprian Okiino, made the…
The Permanent Secretary Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Amb. Patrick Mugoya, has officiated at the opening of a two days’ workshop for the induction of newly appointed Defence Attachés (DAs) from the Uganda Peoples’ Defence Forces (UPDF). The function was held at the Ministry of Defence and Veteran Affairs Headquarters, Mbuya. Amb. Patrick Mugoya welcomed the…
