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Two police officers in Kabale have been arrested on charges of impersonation and theft.
Two police officers in Kabale have been arrested on charges of impersonation and theft.
Sources from the south -south western regional police told URN that those arrested include Ronald Mutunzi, the officer in charge of criminal investigations in Kanungu district.
A reliable source from the Professional Standards Unit of Police, Mutunzi has for the last one year been masquerading as a detective inspector of police.
Mutunzi is also said to be having other undisclosed charges which are contrary to the professional standards of police.
Another police officer, Constable Gerverse Twesigye is in custody on charges of
stealing exhibits from a police post.
Twesigye is attached to Bugongi police post in Bugongi Northern Division Kabale Municipality. He was arrested on Monday evening after he allegedly stole exhibits which include a mattress that had been stolen from a teacher at Bugongi Primary school. He reportedly took the items to his own apartment.
Twesigye is said to have claimed that the exhibits had been stolen but only to be found in his own room.
Elly Maate, the south-south western regional Police spokesperson, confirms the arrest which he says was done at the beginning of this week but never gave the specific date of the arrest.
He says that Mutunzi has been transferred to Kampala police headquarters to pave way for more investigations into his case.
In June this year, Joseph Segujja, a dog handler attached to the South-South western regional police headquarters in Kabale was arrested for alleged theft of a German shepherd dog.
Segujja was accused of stealing the dog belonging to Januario Bagamuhunda, the Kabale district Engineer.
It is alleged that Segujja had picked up the dog from Bagamuhunda in May promising to train it to standards of the police canines but instead sold it off at shillings 800,000. He allegedly deceived Bagamuhunda that his dog had died but failed to produce its carcass and fled to Kampala before he was arrested.
Sources from the south -south western regional police told URN that those arrested include Ronald Mutunzi, the officer in charge of criminal investigations in Kanungu district.
A reliable source from the Professional Standards Unit of Police, Mutunzi has for the last one year been masquerading as a detective inspector of police.
Mutunzi is also said to be having other undisclosed charges which are contrary to the professional standards of police.
Another police officer, Constable Gerverse Twesigye is in custody on charges of
stealing exhibits from a police post.
Twesigye is attached to Bugongi police post in Bugongi Northern Division Kabale Municipality. He was arrested on Monday evening after he allegedly stole exhibits which include a mattress that had been stolen from a teacher at Bugongi Primary school. He reportedly took the items to his own apartment.
Twesigye is said to have claimed that the exhibits had been stolen but only to be found in his own room.
Elly Maate, the south-south western regional Police spokesperson, confirms the arrest which he says was done at the beginning of this week but never gave the specific date of the arrest.
He says that Mutunzi has been transferred to Kampala police headquarters to pave way for more investigations into his case.
In June this year, Joseph Segujja, a dog handler attached to the South-South western regional police headquarters in Kabale was arrested for alleged theft of a German shepherd dog.
Segujja was accused of stealing the dog belonging to Januario Bagamuhunda, the Kabale district Engineer.
It is alleged that Segujja had picked up the dog from Bagamuhunda in May promising to train it to standards of the police canines but instead sold it off at shillings 800,000. He allegedly deceived Bagamuhunda that his dog had died but failed to produce its carcass and fled to Kampala before he was arrested.
