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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Uganda Police Force and Makerere University have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to offer Masters Degrees to police commanders in peace and conflict studies.
The MoU is aimed at affiliating the police senior command and staff college at Bwebajja to Makerere University to train senior police officers in peace and conflict studies.
The director of police human resource development, Godfrey Golooba says police wants to professionalize its officers to a level that they can fit anywhere in public service.
Goloba highlights that a similar program has been existing between the police college and the United Nations University of Peace based in Costa Rica over the years.
According to Goloba, their partnership with the UN University of Peace is ending this month of July and this is the major reason they had to sit and resolve to work with Makerere University to ensure that the police officers are helped to execute their duties professionally with a local University.
He adds that this is done to deal with the continuous complaints from the public concerning the behavior of its officers.
He indicates that police officers to benefit from the training will include Superintendents of Police, Senior Superintendents of Police, and Assistant Commissioners of Police who missed out on the chance before among other senior ranking officers.
The police command and staff college Bwebajja was established to train senior police officers in leadership and managerial skills.
Since its establishment, the college on Entebbe road has helped to reduce the training backlog in the police force at senior levels.
While signing the MoU at the Vice Chancellor’s office Makerere University, Prof Barnabas Nawangwe noted that police is one key sector that needs professionalism to be in position to carry out its duties fairly.
Nawangwe explains that Makerere has all the capacity that will see police attain their objective when it comes to human resource training within the one year master’s program.
Patrick Mangeni, the dean of School of Liberal and Performing Arts in the College of Humanities and Social Sciences says quality of human resource in police is a key component that every Ugandan would like to count.
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