The Hon. Minister of Internal Affairs Gen. Jeje odongo has today passed out 73 senior officers at the Police senior command and staff college Bwebaja. Students have graduated with an intermediate command and staff course certificate. The course has lasted for six months. The officers were from the Uganda police force, Uganda prisons service , Somali […]
Continue ReadingThe purpose of this Press briefing is to inform the country of the security preparations for Swearing-in and Inaugural Ceremony of the President elect scheduled for 12th May 2016. Let me begin by congratulating the people of Uganda upon achieving this major milestone in the nation’s election calendar because the swearing-in ceremony of the President-elect […]
Continue ReadingThere has been continued campaign of distorted information, speculation, biased and unfair criticism of police actions in regard to regulating and close monitoring of col Rtd Dr Kizza Besigye which has been described as house arrest. The police wishes to categorically state that Rtd Col Dr Kizza Besigye is not under house arrest. He is […]
Continue ReadingToday, Friday, 26th February, 2016 at about 2:26 pm, a long fuel tank, at Eddie’s garage, located in Kisenyi, along Musajjalumbwa road, and next to MAKUDUS HOTEL, exploded and fatally wounded, 3 welders who were patch-welding weak points atop a Mercedes Benz-ACTROSS fuel tank under Reg. No. CGO-4478-AA-99/4476-AA-19. The tank that was being repaired previously […]
Continue ReadingA child aged around 12 years, who has been identified as Sam Lukemba, was fatally wounded this evening at a playing/parking ground in Mengo, opposite the Lubiri Palace, in Kampala, as a result of an explosion from an object suspected to be a remnant of an explosive buried in the ground. The location of the […]
Continue ReadingFebruary 10, 2016 In a few days to come, Uganda will be conducting National Elections, and in particular, the Presidential and Parliamentary Elections on the 18th of February, 2016, in line with the election roadmap of the Electoral Commission. It is a very crucial stage in the electoral process, as candidates, in their final push, finalise […]
Continue ReadingThe IGP. Gen Kale Kayihura is not impressed with the words and or statement attributed to him by the media recently during the double event of passing out crime preventers and the sports gala in Kapchorwa. In the Daily Monitor Newspaper of Monday 25th January 2016, a story was published under the mini headline ‘Go hang-Kayihura […]
Continue ReadingThis morning the Uganda police force (UPF) in conjunction with the Uganda people’s defense forces (UPDF) fourth division safely detonated a dummy bomb found at the Gulu bus park restoring the situation to normal. Residents of Gulu town were sent into fear as a suspected bomb was found wrapped in a polythene bag hidden in […]
Continue ReadingThe hectic Kabalagala suburb of Kampala is fast becoming like Esso Corner. Even someone who settled in Kampala a year ago knows where Esso Corner is, but they have never seen the Esso petrol station that gave the famous stage its name, because Esso left Uganda over a decade ago. Similarly, Kabalagala has for long […]
Continue ReadingUganda Police have passed out at least 1.5 million crime preventers after receiving basic training in crime prevention as the basis for community policing. The group is to supplement the work done by Police in keeping law and order especially during the Papal visit to Uganda and later on the 2016 election season. Presiding over […]
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