There are reports that the Central Police Station in Kampala is bribed by the rich people in Kampala to harass poor suspects. Many human rights activists have complained of torture of suspects at CPS but it seems the practice only continues.

The reports further indicate that the CPS police arrests people and detain some of them for over a month without charge or producing them to court. What it does, according to sources within the same police, it arrests people and doesn’t record statements from them. This police do so in order to hide evidence that a suspect has stayed at the station over 48 hours. Ugandan law prohibits detention of suspects at police stations beyond 48 hours. The suspects who are detained at CPS and not ill treated are those with people to follow them up.

Kampala lawyers Medard Ssegona and Abdu Katuntu, protest that the suspects’ constitutional rights many times are abused by the police in Uganda with the backing of the State. The CPS and the entire Uganda police in general also has a habit of tossing suspects from one police station to another,  an action which has drawn criticism from human rights defenders.

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