By Our Reporter
NATIONAL
Government has in response to President Museveni’s directive established fully equipped police stations in all the 2190 Sub Counties, Municipalities and Town Councils countrywide.
This was announced by the Inspector General of Police, Abbas Byakagaba in a press briefing today, Tuesday, 29th January, 2025.
The IGP revealed that effective immediately, every Sub County, Municipality and Town Council will have a Police Station with 18 personnel.
The Sub County Police Stations shall have an Officer In Charge, 12 General Officers, 1 CID Officer, 1 Crime Intelligence Officer, 1 Child and Family Protection Officer and a Community Liaison Officer.
Each Sub County Police Station will be equipped with three motorcycles, radio communication and a Counter Telephone whose number shall be extensively publicized such that communities get to know it.
The Sub County Policing has come on the heels of President Museveni’s PDM tours where theft of PDM Project items such as pigs, chicken, goats is rampant countering the progress of the Model program.
The implementation according to IGP has already kicked off in 9 Police regions that he identified as North/West Nile, Rwizi, Kiira, Rwenzori East, Sipi, Greater Masaka and Greater Bushenyi/Albertine regions.
He says the Uganda Police Force has deployed about 10,000 personnel to those regions adding that the entire country shall be covered by 15th February, 2025.
