During a recent address, President Yoweri Museveni said that his police officers are disorganized when it comes to handling criminal cases.
The President of Uganda, Yoweri Museveni, has taken a swipe at his police officers for being disorganized when it comes to tackling crimes.
Museveni made the remarks on Friday while delivering the State of the Nation Address.
He said when they introduced the trend of fixing CCTV cameras in all dangerous road spots of the country, the idea was to help fight and trap down assassin missions.
The president, however, raised that the police has failed to man the cameras well saying that they only wait when an incident has occurred and they release footage of the scenes rather than trapping down the wrongdoers while in action.
Museveni who was first to bring in the recent scandal that saw Gen Katumba Wamala’s daughter and driver shot dead along Kisasi road said if the police had used these cameras as alerts, they would have been able to trap down the killers and all the motorcycles that were involved in the attack.
“The recent shooting of Gen. Katumba by the usual shallow actors, showed the poor organization of the Police. The cameras I put in place did their work. As you saw the killers were running from one area to the other area. Why didn’t the Camera centre alert all the patrol cars and even the UAVs to chase and block these killers? No. These wonderful camera managers, think that their gadgets are only for storing videos for forensic analysis as part of the post-mortem of the operation. Yes, the cameras are for forensic but also for enduuru (alarm) while the crime is going on,” Museveni said.
“The criminals will be on continuous viewing by all the camera centres, if these Policemen adopt my directives and rationality on the use of those cameras. Henceforth, the Police is directed to stop using mobile phones and go back to using radios that are open to all stations so that they act promptly in emergencies like the one of Gen. Katumba. In addition to the cameras, our security leaders have been working on my directive of installing digital monitors on all vehicles, all bodabodas, all boats on the Lake. They have taken long to implement this plan. This will make it easy to know which pikipiki, which car or which boat was at this point at this time,” he added.
