Uganda and Rwanda have now formed a joint police force whose major purpose is to monitor and guard against negative forces entering Uganda or Rwanda from the Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).
Sources say that the Uganda–Rwanda police force will help the two countries to share intelligence information. The police was formed during a joint security meeting which the two inspector generals of police, Lt. Gen. Kale Kayihura (Uganda) and Emmanuel Gasana (Rwanda) held at the Katuna and Kyanika Uganda– Rwanda border posts yesterday.
Gasana confirms the joint police force was formed due to the political threats on both Uganda and Rwanda from the Democratic Republic of Congo.
He says that the joint police force is a monitoring mechanism to support the security structures of both countries. However what we have heard from sources is that the officers each country as deployed are not real policemen and women.
The security sources from both Kigali and Kampala told our correspondents that what Rwanda and Uganda have done is to make soldiers dressed in police uniforms and make them camouflage as policemen.
The two countries have presidents who come from the same ethnic group but they don’t trust each other. Each of the presidents suspects that the other is working for his downfall. We are told that Uganda deployed its anti-terrorism military squads, intelligence units at the boarder posts to work as police.
