The Uganda police has fully implemented President Museveni’s directive to set up fully functional and equipped police stations in all 2,190 Sub Counties, Municipalities and Town Councils countrywide.
The Inspector General of Police, Abbas Byakagaba, while addressing the media in Kampala said that every Sub County, Municipality and Town Council will have a Police Station with 18 personnel to increase the police presence and ensure security at the lower levels state administration .
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 follows President Museveni’s on going hands -on PDM tours where theft of PDM project items such as pigs, chicken, goats has been reported among other crimes hindering the progfress being made by this country wide development intervention intend to bring majhority of Ugandans in the money economy .
The implementation off the Sub county policing model , Byakagaba stated is on-going in 9 Police regions that include 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.
