Kidnapped Tourist and Tour Guide Rescued

The Police and sister security agencies have today, Sunday, 7th April, 2019, rescued Ms. Kimberley Sue Endicott, an American tourist together with the senior tour guide. Jean Paul,  who were kidnapped on gunpoint last Tuesday, 2nd April, 2019, while on an evening game drive at Queen Elizabeth National park. The two were recovered unharmed, in […]

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Director CID Commends EU on Drug Trafficking Fight

The Director Criminal Investigations, AIGP Grace Akullo has  commended the European Union for their efforts in the fight against drug trafficking in Uganda. In a message read for her by the Deputy Director, Senior Commissioner of Police Joseph Obwona yesterday during the closing ceremony of a three-day workshop on passenger profiling at Protea Hotel in […]

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Police Actively Pursuing Suspected Kidnappers

PRESS RELEASE The Police has dispatched an elite squad from the Tourism Police, to reinforce the security teams at Queen Elizabeth National Park, and actively pursue, a group of 04 unknown gunmen who allegedly kidnapped an American and a Ugandan senior guide  who were on an evening game drive.  This incident occurred yesterday, Tuesday 2nd […]

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30 Officers Undergo Transnational Organized Crime Training

30 detectives attached to the Department of Anti-Narcotics are being empowered with skills to curb Transnational Organised Crime specifically in relation to the movement of narcotics across different countries and continents. The training will focus closely on passenger profiling, identification of high risk travelers as well as phone mining and analysis. While launching the four-day […]

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IGP Congratulates IP Cheptegei Joshua and the Police Team of Athletes

PRESS RELEASE The Police would like to join the rest of the country, to congratulate and applaud, Inspector of Police (IP) Joshua Cheptegei, for his remarkable accomplishment at the World Cross Country, Championship, 2019, in the Men’s Senior Category, in Aarhus, Denmark, on Saturday, 30th March, 2019, where he earned a podium sport, by taking […]

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Remarks by IGP at The Closure Of A Course On Fraudulent Document Identification And Detection Of Impostors

I am pleased to preside over the closure of this course on Fraudulent Document Identification and Detection of Impostors, offered by the US Embassy in Uganda. I am informed that 600 police officers have so far been trained in this discipline since the inception of the program  in 2014. This is a good step at […]

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80 Officers Trained in Fraudulent Document Identification and Detection of Impostors

80 police officers from Criminal Investigation Directorate headquarters and Kampala Metropolitan Region have today started on a two-day course on fraudulent document identification and detection of imposters. Presiding over the opening ceremony at Kibuli police training school, the Deputy Inspector General of Police, Maj. Gen. Sabiiti Muzeyi urged the officers to take the course seriously […]

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