Security & Crime Investigation

The Criminal Investigations Directorate has filed charges against the Kole District Registration Officer at NIRA for alleged abuse of his office. According to SCP Fred Enanga, the police spokesperson, Asiimwe Fabby Innocent moved a registration kit from Kole district to Kampala and used it to register individuals outside his jurisdiction without authorization in 2001 while serving as the district registration officer, which is against NIRA procedures and guidelines. "The kit was used to register both Ugandan and Foreign Nationals, most of...

In a joint operation carried out by the Uganda Peoples’ Defence Forces (UPDF) and the Congolese Army (FARDC), three Allied Democratic Front (ADF) rebels were put out of action. Maj. Bilal Katamba, the spokesperson of the UPDF mountain division and Operation Shujaa, said the joint forces engaged a group of about 10 to 15 ADF militants in the areas of Talia, North Kivu Province, on Sunday, July 30, 2023, at about 10:00 a.m. He added that a significant number of weapons...

In a police statement released July 31, 2023, by the Police Spokesperson SCP, Fred Enanga, the Directorate of Counter-Terrorism, in coordination with the territorial team of Kampala Metropolitan East, responded to an expulsion, that accidentally went off after its assembler tampered with it, at Banda zone II, Nakawa Division. "The task force swung into action, cordoned off the area, conducted a search, and arrested a suspect identified as Collins Mugabe, aged 23 years," Enanga said. The police recovered at the scene...

Two suspects are in custody after the Territorial Police in Kampala Metropolitan North and Nansana Division raided World Gate Training Centre, on July 31, 2023, a home that was harbouring 131 persons under the disguise of training and inducting them for the labour market in the Middle East. The Police identified the two suspects as, Namubiru Rashida, a trainer, and Ramathan Hakim, were arrested for alleged trafficking in persons. Police spokesperson SCP Enanga Fred, in a press release yesterday evening, said...

The Ministry of Internal Affairs says that the fight against human trafficking remains a big problem due to non-manned porous borders across the country, adding that out of 2699km of borderlines of five countries, only 67 km are under the control of internal affairs. Commissioner of Police Julius Twinomujuni, the national coordinator on trafficking in persons at the Ministry of Internal Affairs, while speaking at the commemoration of the World Day against Human Trafficking on July 30, 2023, at Kabira...

Lady Justice Jane Frances Abodo, the Director of Public Prosecutions, has urged all stakeholders in the Justice Law and Order Sector, as well as the community, to join forces in the fight against human trafficking. She made this request at the launch of Uganda's ground-breaking Trafficking in Persons Mobile App Platform (TIPMAP) on July 28, 2023, at the Kampala Sheraton Hotel. TIPMAP is the first Live Data Visualisation Dashboard for Human Trafficking Cases in the nation. This initiative aims to facilitate...