Stories :: User: Kato Joseph :: Accepted date: August 2022

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

  12 Aug 2022, 19:40 Comments 174 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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• 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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• 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 332 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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• 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  “This serves to notify all immigration officers that I have rescinded/withdrawn the notice therein requiring all Ugandans traveling to GCC for employment to be subjected to health checks for internal organs and trauma injuries before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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• 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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• 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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• Clinician Arrested for Fleecing over 100 Million in Recruitment Scam

  8 Aug 2022, 16:57 Comments 362 Views Kampala, Uganda Security Crime Updates

  Musaasizi, who has been operating Loyal Medical Centre, is accused by 37 women of cheating them of their money on promises of securing them jobs in Saudi Arabia and Dubai. The suspect has been arrested by Bweyogerere police after 13 of the victims opened a case against him and others later followed.

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• Number of Ugandans, Kenyans Entering Uganda is Three Times Higher -Immigration

  8 Aug 2022, 16:33 Comments 593 Views Kampala, Uganda Security Crime Updates

  Simon Peter Mundeyi, the spokesperson for the ministry of internal affairs, said DCIC is yet to establish whether Ugandans and Kenyans are fleeing any anticipated chaos as Kenya heads into tomorrow’s presidential polls or something else.

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• Minister Otafiire Bothered by Robberies by 'Men in Uniform'

  7 Aug 2022, 13:24 Comments 836 Views Kampala, Uganda Security Crime Updates

  Such incidents have been reported along the Kampala-Gulu highway, especially at Migadde, Matugga and Kiryowa villages and the Kampala-Masaka road in the areas of Kyengera, Maya and Nsangi.

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• KCCA Asks Works Ministry to Halt Importation of Motorcycles

  6 Aug 2022, 11:06 Comments 365 Views Kampala, Uganda Security Crime Updates

  KCCA Roads Supervisor Eng Andrew Serunjogi says that the unregulated importation of motorcycles is a disaster for the country because they are already too many on the roads. It is estimated that there are one million motorcycles on the roads in Uganda, a majority of them, about 750,000 operating in the districts of Kampala, Mukono and Wakiso.

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• External Laborers Are Killed, Fed to Crocodiles -Min Otafiire

  5 Aug 2022, 18:55 Comments 493 Views Kampala, Uganda Security Crime Updates

  Many labour exporters, according to Otafiire, have been using clinics to get fake results which they use to take people to work abroad. Once the laborers reach countries like Saudi Arabia, Otafiire says some are taken to other places for instance Thailand where their organs are extracted and then they become food for crocodiles.

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• Museveni Appoints Gen. Kawagga as Nairobi Defence Advisor

  4 Aug 2022, 20:35 Comments 409 Views Kampala, Uganda Security Crime Updates

  Museveni has replaced Gen. Kawagga with Brig. Gen Joseph Semwanga.

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• Police Forensics Director Skips Rank in Latest Promotions

  4 Aug 2022, 18:23 Comments 291 Views Kampala, Uganda Security Crime Updates

  General Museveni, who is also the Commander in Chief of the armed forces has accelerated Mubiru from the rank of Superintendent of Police -SP to Assistant Commissioner of Police –ACP thus skipping the rank of Senior Superintendent of Police –SSP.

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• Museveni Promotes Five Senior Commissioners to AIGPs

  4 Aug 2022, 14:23 Comments 504 Views Kampala, Uganda Security Crime Updates

  The promoted police officers include Charles Birungi who replaced retired Andrew Soroweni as Director of Police Welfare and Production, Fadhil Kaali who is the commander of Field Force Police (FFP), James Ocaya who has been serving as director of research, planning, and development, John Nuwagira who replaced Edward Ochom, and Richard Edyegu who replaced Godfrey Bangirana as Director Logistics and Engineering.

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• Security Agencies Trace Uganda Woman Sold to Iraqi Man for Marriage Top story

  4 Aug 2022, 09:22 Comments 1008 Views Kampala, Uganda Security Crime Updates

  Agnes Igoye, the Deputy National Coordinator of the anti-trafficking in-persons department in the Ministry of Internal Affairs, says that the search for Shifa is finally over since she has successfully been tracked down.

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• CMI, ISO Study Scam Involving 200 Civil Servants

  2 Aug 2022, 20:14 Comments 308 Views Kampala, Uganda Security Crime Updates

  Speaking on behalf of the security agencies that have been assigned to probe the fraudsters, police spokesperson, Fred Enanga, says that after convincing the civil servants, the con-artistes would then ask them to send money for updating their documents. The money would allegedly go to the secretary of a committee set up to vet those who qualify for overseas study.

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• 260 Diplomatic Passports Cancelled Top story

  2 Aug 2022, 16:31 Comments 786 Views Kampala, Uganda Security Crime Updates

  Mundeyi said because some people have money and could afford paying shillings 500,000 for a Diplomatic passport in the bank, they gave themselves titles indicating that they are foreign service officers, judges or sometimes members of the first family.

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• Covid-19 Lockdown, Mobile Phones Misuse Fuel Rampant Road Crashes

  1 Aug 2022, 19:05 Comments 362 Views Kampala, Uganda Security Crime Updates

  Nampiima said ever since the economy fully resumed, police have been taking keen interest in investigating the increasing incidents of tyre bursts, and found that drivers of the vehicles that had been grounded as a result of Covid-19 restrictions did not bother to change the tyres before putting them back on the road.

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• Police Lose Constable Applicants to UPDF, Prisons over Delayed Interviews

  1 Aug 2022, 16:54 Comments 610 Views Kampala, Uganda Security Crime Updates

  Police Spokesperson, Fred Enanga, has today explained that police decided to re-advertise the PPC vacancies because many of the applicants decided to join sister security agencies when the force delayed conduct interviews.

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