Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni has ordered the Inspector General of Police, Martin Okoth Ochola, to sack all non-committed police officers. Museveni, who was speaking on Thursday after the commissioning of the National Command Centre at Naguru police headquarters, said with available technology, crime won’t …
Read More »Police Council empowers RPCs to make transfers
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Regional Police Commanders –RPCs will soon start transferring non-gazetted officers under their jurisdiction, URN has learnt. The Deputy Police Spokesperson, Polly Namaye, says the Police Council resolved last week to empower RPCs to transfer non gazetted officers under their jurisdiction. These include all policemen …
Read More »IGP dispatches detectives to Obongi to probe shooting of police officer
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Inspector-General of Police –IGP Martin Okoth Ochola has dispatched a team of homicide detectives to investigate the shooting of a police officer in Moyo district. Ian Natukunda, the Officer in charge Palorinya base camp police post in Obongi district was shot by a …
Read More »IGP: There will be no Bobi Wine Independence Day Concert
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Inspector-General of Police Martin Okoth Ochola has cancelled Kyadondo East MP Robert Kyagulanyi alias Bobi Wine’s independence music show. Ochola in his letter dated October 2nd, but released on Tuesday to Kampala Metropolitan police, said Kyagulanyi did not consider the plans for …
Read More »IGP orders release of ‘Idle and disorderly’ offenders
Kampala, Uganda |THE INDEPENDENT | The Inspector General of Police-IGP, Martin Okoth Ochola has ordered the immediate release of all the people arrested on charges of being idle and disorderly in line with the president’s directive. Ochola’s directive is contained in an October 1, 2019 circular addressed to all directors …
Read More »IGP Ochola orders probe into extortion by police surgeons
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Inspector-General of Police Martin Okoth Ochola has directed the Criminal Investigations Directorate to probe allegations of extortion by surgeons. The directive follows public outcry on reports that victims of crime are asked to pay before they are examined by surgeons. The reports indicate that …
Read More »America pins ex-IGP Kayihura on torture
Who is next on sanctions list? Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The most significant aspects of the sanctions the American government has placed on former Inspector General of Police, Gen. Kale Kayihura are two; the timing and their broadness. The timing of the American announcement is important; just 16 …
Read More »IGP congratulates successful applicants
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The IGP would like to take this opportunity to congratulate all applicants who qualified to join the police profession. They will now undergo on extensive process of molding them from civilians into professionals and dedicated officers. And their first day at the police …
Read More »Why senior police officers order juniors to release suspects
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Last week, Ismail Kiggundu called several district and division police commanders-DPCs, officers in charge and heads of Criminal Investigations Department ordering them to release certain suspects in their custody. The Kampala Metropolitan Police spokesperson, Patrick Onyango, says e called the officers using police lines …
Read More »Fallen former IGP Kisembo to be Buried on Sunday
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The fallen former Inspector General of Police (IGP) John Kisembo, will be laid to rest on Sunday at his ancestral home in Kitema village, about two kilometres along Mugalike-Isunga Road in Kagadi District. Kisembo, 64, Uganda’s IGP from 1998 to 2001 succumbed to lung cancer, …
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