Over 15 Uganda Police Officers have been charged for engaging in acts of corruption, extortion and misconduct during the Covid-19 lockdown and over 30 others are reportedly under scrutiny and investigation. Those charged by the police’s disciplinary unit and pending trial are at the ranks of Assistant Superintendents of Police, Inspectors of Police, Assistant Inspectors…
Six policemen and three suspects have been injured in an accident in Katakwi district. The accident occurred at Alera trading centre along Usuk road after the police pick up patrol car registration no. UP 8355 belonging to Katakwi central police station overturned. The policemen had gone to pick the three suspects. According to the East…
Ten suspected leaders of different criminal gangs in Kampala have been arrested by the police in separate operations. According to Police Spokesperson Fred Enanga, crime intelligence received information about new criminal gang groups including Kibadia operating in Lusaze and Lugala areas, and another group identified as Kisangani aka Kigali that has been terrorizing Katwe and…
Police in Nabbingo, a Kampala suburb has on Monday afternoon intercepted a motor vehicle (box body truck) registration number UBJ 803P and arrested 14 passengers for flouting both the Covid-19 SOPs and traffic regulations. According to police, the interception followed observation of CCTV camera visuals showing people embarking and disembarking the truck at different points.…
Police in Rukungiri is holding a man accused of killing his biological son over Shillings 5000. Elly Maate, the Kigezi Regional police spokesperson identified the suspect as a 68-year-old Eric John Magara, a resident of Maaya cell, Kitimba ward, Western division in Rukungiri municipality. The deceased is Evart Magara aka Rwamutwe, 31, a resident of…
Police in Mbarara City, Western Uganda has arrested at least four people believed to be part of a gang involved in stealing vehicles and number plates from different parts of the country. The Rwizi region Spokesperson Samson Kasasira identified suspects as Besiga Norman, Mucunguzi Didas, Mugume Didas and Amutuhaire Kenneth. According to the Police Chief,…
The Inspector General of Police has made changes that have seen Kampala Metropolitan Police commander Moses Kafeero transferred and replaced by Commissioner of police Stephen Tanui. According to the transfers dated July,1, 2021, Kafeero has been appointed as the commandant for the Senior Staff College Bwebajja in Wakiso district. The changes have also seen Senior…
Kampala Capital City Authority (KCCA), Non-Government Organizations and Uganda Police have rescued at least 170 street kids from the slums of Kampala and taken them for quarantine and rehabilitation. According to Ms Eunice Tumwebaze, the Manager for Children and Youths at KCCA, children have been settled at Nakivubo Blue Primary School where they are being…
Uganda police and sister security agencies in Rukungiri District have started investigations into a fire outbreak that razed down a house killing one person beyond recognition. left a 44 year old man dead. This website have learnt that a 44 year old Arinaitwe Eric (now deceased) a resident of Nyamitooma II village in Western ward,…
Motorcycles impounded during the swearing of President Yoweri Museveni have landed police commanders in trouble after the police leadership ordered a probe into how they were released without the cyclists paying the penalty of 40,000 shillings. We’ve learnt that the Assistant Inspector-General of Police, Edward Osiru Ochom, who is also director of police operations has…
