Stories :: Category: Security :: Accepted date: August 2022

Updated: 13 Aug, 01:1501:15

• Police to Cough an Extra UGX2.3Billion for 773 Promoted Officers' Salaries

  12 Aug 2022, 19:40 Comments 178 Views Kampala, Uganda Security Crime Updates

  The promoted officers include five promoted to the rank of Assistant Inspector General of Police (AIGP), nine promoted to Senior Commissioner of Police (SCP), 33 promoted to Commissioner of Police (CP), 70 promoted to Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP), 137 promoted to Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP), 215 promoted to Superintendent of Police (SP) and 173 promoted to Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP).

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• Man Arrested for Attempting to Disarm UPDF Soldier in Arua City

  12 Aug 2022, 12:44 Comments 312 Views Security Crime Northern Breaking news

  Adiga who was armed with an Axe and Machete reportedly sneaked into the detach and attacked a UPDF soldier who was resting inside his grass thatched house and attempted to grab his gun. In the ensuing fight with the suspect, the soldier whose identity has not been disclosed got injured.

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• Man Arrested in Apac For Assaulting Traffic Officer on Duty

  12 Aug 2022, 07:44 Comments 335 Views Apac, Uganda Human rights Crime Security Updates

  Orec, a resident of Lela Village, Awila Parish, Akokoro Sub-County Apac District was arrested on Thursday after he assaulted John Tenywa, a traffic police officer.

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• Stop Being Negative Over Promoted Colleagues - RPC Twishime

  11 Aug 2022, 22:43 Comments 209 Views Kampala, Uganda Security Crime Updates

  But Twishime said since the promotions, some Police officers in his region are speaking negatively about their colleagues. He advised the unhappy Police officers who were not promoted to be patient before they are also promoted.

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• Police Blocks Sobi from Evicting 92-Year-Old Man

  11 Aug 2022, 18:08 Comments 210 Views Mukono, Uganda Security Crime Court Editorial

  Sobi and more than 30 people raided Mwanje’s land and started clearing the land of approximately 5 acres on orders of Fulgensio Ssembajwe, the administrator of the properties belonging to the family of the late John Lule Ssebakijja, who are neighbors to Mwanje.

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• Suspected Landmine Injures Bushenyi Beekeeper

  11 Aug 2022, 16:37 Comments 253 Views Bushenyi, Uganda Security Updates

  Martial Tumusiime the greater Bushenyi region Police spokesperson says the incident occurred when the victim went to check on his bee hives and he decided to cut grasses around but in the process an object exploded injuring him in the stomach.

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• Panic as Suspected Raiders Resort to Petty Theft in Karamoja

  11 Aug 2022, 09:44 Comments 333 Views Karamoja, Uganda Security Crime Report

  Lucy Nakori, a resident of Loputuk sub-county in Moroto district, says that the warriors who were passing by her home carried away the food she was cooking and continued with their raiding mission.

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• We had Lost Hope for Police Promotions- AIGP Edyegu

  10 Aug 2022, 19:39 Comments 401 Views Kampala, Uganda Security Crime Updates

  While speaking on behalf of the 254 police officers who were recently promoted and pipped this morning at Naguru Police Headquarters, AIGP Edyegu said some of the colleagues had waited to be promoted for more than 30 years and had totally lost hope.

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• Pictorial: Police Decorates 254 Senior Police Officers

  10 Aug 2022, 19:22 Comments 333 Views Kampala, Uganda Security Crime Slideshow

  Spouses, children and other relatives could not hold their excitement as names of the person they had accompanied were read.

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• Seven Arrested Over Fake Notes in Lira

  10 Aug 2022, 17:51 Comments 457 Views Lira, Uganda Crime Security Northern Updates

  Police found the suspects in possession of bottles of liquid products that they are believed to have been using to print the counterfeit notes and fake 5,000 and 50,000 Shillings counterfeit currency notes worth Shillings 14.1m.

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• Otafiire Withdraws Directive to Labor Export Firms on Body Organ Examination

  10 Aug 2022, 11:11 Comments 427 Views Kampala, Uganda Security Crime Updates

  “This serves to notify all immigration officers that I have rescinded/withdrawn the notice therein requiring all Ugandans traveling to GCC for employment to be subjected to health checks for internal organs and trauma injuries before leaving the country,” Otafiire letter reads in part.

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• IGP Wants UN Agency to Vacate Naguru Police Land

  10 Aug 2022, 09:42 Comments 339 Views Parliament Crime Security Report

  The IGP says that the Institute should vacate the 16.52 acreage of land leased to them for failing to develop it as envisaged.

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• Elephants Destroy 50 Acres of Crops in Agago District

  10 Aug 2022, 08:27 Comments 286 Views Northern Business and finance Security Updates

  John Bosco Oloya, the LCV Councilor Omiya Pachwa sub-county, said that 15 elephants again invaded three villages of Kato, coo-odong, and Coo-odong North in Lujim parish on Monday and destroyed at least 50 acres of crops.

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• Three Arrested over Illegal Gun Trafficking in Karamoja

  10 Aug 2022, 08:12 Comments 235 Views Karamoja, Uganda Crime Security Report

  Among the suspects are three local leaders who are accused of dealing with gun traffickers and illegal possession of firearms.

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• Busizoori Hands Over SFC Command To Mugisha

  10 Aug 2022, 07:12 Comments 143 Views Security Updates

  The outgoing SFC Commander, Brig. Gen. Felix Busizoori handed over to Brig. Gen. David Mugisha. "We must always be very serious whenever we are given assignments. This will enable the President to achieve the broader mission,” Mbadi said.

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• Panic In Masaka as Thugs Drop Threatening Leaflets

  9 Aug 2022, 18:39 Comments 301 Views Security Report

  Matia Kakooza, the former Kimanya-Kabonera Division LC III Chairperson, who was listed among the targets, says the threats cannot be taken lightly, adding that they resolved to call for security meetings in the affected cells to find ways of neutralizing the threats.

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• Prisons Drops More Than 500 Recruits Over Document Mismatches

  9 Aug 2022, 11:21 Comments 361 Views Kampala, Uganda Security Crime Updates

  UPS Spokesperson, Frank Baine, explains that at the end of the recruitment exercise early last month, it was established that almost 60 percent of the recruits had mismatches in their dates of birth, academic documents, and national ID.

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• M23 Rebels Punch Holes in UN Report Over Rwanda Top story

  9 Aug 2022, 10:45 Comments 808 Views Rutshuru, Democratic Republic of the Congo Security Updates

  Denis Mukwege, a renowned human rights activist in North Kivu province, and the elected provincial deputy of Rutshuru, Bonaventure Sherimpuwe have called for sanctions against Rwanda for the aggression against DR Congo.

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• Who is the New Deputy Commissioner General of Uganda Prisons?

  9 Aug 2022, 09:32 Comments 211 Views Kampala, Uganda Security Crime Updates

  Baine explains that Akena's first major assignment was in 1989 when he was appointed deputy commander of Murchison Bay Prison in Luzira. Akena was in 1993 appointed officer in charge of UPS’ Lugore farm in Gulu district where he narrowly survived ambushes, abductions and shootings by rebels of Lord’s Resistance Army under the command of Joseph Kony.

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• Police Busts Car-Theft Racket, 16 Stolen Vehicles Recovered

  8 Aug 2022, 18:30 Comments 315 Views Kampala, Uganda Security Crime Breaking news

  The two suspects were arrested during an intelligence-led operation conducted by crime intelligence operatives together with CID detectives over the weekend, following the increase in car robberies within parking lots, streets, homes, social events like weddings, funerals, and places of worship in KMP.

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