The Minister of Security General Elly Tumwine has maintained that the speaker of parliament is ignorant about the facts of the Nommo gallery. This was when he was explaining to parliament about the alleged attack on the speaker of parliament over parliamentary decision calling him out of the Nommo gallery. Recently parliament passed a resolution […]
The Inspector General of Police, Martin Okoth Ochola, has assured Ugandans that the security situation in the country is peaceful. Ochola, appearing before the Committee on Defense and Internal Affairs on Thursday, 19 April, 2018 said that the only challenge they face and which they are addressing, are pockets of criminality in the Kampala Metropolitan […]
District and Divisional Police Commander are uncertain on how to enforce a directive to confiscate camouflage attire similar to that of the army and police from the public. Asuman Mugenyi, the Director of Operations Uganda Police Force directed District and District Police Commanders to confiscate all camouflage clothes that resemble any military or police […]
Alshabab attacked and killed at least four Ugandan soldiers at the African Union Mission to Somalia (AMISOM) base in Somalia on Sunday. The attack happened on April 1st 2018 at Quoryole, Bulomareer and Golwein in Lower Shabelle region in Somalia. Since the attack, the media has been awash with different statistics with some reports suggesting that 8 soldiers […]
The Uganda police force directorate of Peace Support Operations has conducted the second aptitude test in English on a total number of 587 under the African Union (AU) Pre -Assessment for Assistance Mission service (AMS) at Nsambya Youth Sharing Hall on April 3 2018. The AIGP Grace Turyagumanawe, the Director Peace Support Operations Uganda police […]
President Yoweri Museveni has assured crime preventers in the country that they will maintain their duties as they are now regarded as a Reserve Army of the Uganda People’s Defence Forces (UPDF), State House Uganda reports. “A few weeks ago, I saw in the papers and somebody said that the fate of the crime preventers […]
New Inspector General of Police, Okoth Micheal Ochola has in a stunning move shuffled police officers, dumped his predecessor’s cronies and redeployed senior officer’s that had been sidelined for long. In a message to all police units and signed off by Ochola himself, AIGP Abbas Byakagaba is appointed the new police director in charge of […]
The parliamentary presidential committee has asked the minister for presidency to find more funds the increase the budget of the Internal Security Organization. The committee chairperson Jesica Ababiku moved the motion amidst strong opposition from several MPs who are against passing the budget of the presidency minus facilitating ISO. This was after Mbayo told the […]
Uganda Police Force requires 1.2 trillion shillings for the next financial year 2018/19 to curb crimes, increase capacity of police officers and improve public image of the force. The Undersecretary of the police force Rogers Muhirwa said that the force has instead been allocated 514 billion shillings, a shortfall of 721 billion shillings which will […]
Police chief Gen Kale Kayihura sacks the Commandant of Police Standards Unit (PSU) commissioner of Police Good Mwesigwa. According to a message by the Inspector General of Police Gen,Kale Kayihura dated January 10, Mwesigwa has been replaced by Assistant Commissioner of Police John William Okalany from the directorate of Human Rights and Legal Services. Mwesigwa […]