{UAH} Tears as police evict officers' families from city barracks

Allan,

What do you make of this? Is police continuing with its high-handedness, this time to their own?

The Daily Monitor: 

"KAMPALA. Police officers on Wednesday threw out household property of colleagues who had refused to vacate houses in city barracks. 

The police authorities had given the officers and their families' an ultimatum of two days; starting Monday, to vacate the barracks and relocate to their new duty stations. 

The families plead:

Ms Akello pleaded with the police authorities to help and transport them to where their husbands and families live.
''Let them at least bring for us lorries to transport us up to our families. We are stranded right now and government should indeed intervene,'' Akello said as she and her children stood near the heap of their household property but clueless on where to go."

Cries everywhere:

Most of the time, it has been the Opposition crying of police high-handedness. However, two events point a shift on who should be tortured, police themselves and their families. 

Refresher and advanced training is very good for performance of any organization. But how is it done to benefit individual trainees and their organizations? Currently some police officers, most of them old people about to retire are undergoing a "refresher course" in Masindi, a few miles away from the police training wing. There is news emerging that there is great human rights abuses where old police are tortured and verbally abused by their trainers. To make it worse, the selection of who went for the refresher course was haphazardly done. For instance, breast feeding women police officers were forced to leave behind kids as young as 3 months old. Some of the trainees have chronic back-pain, ulcers etc. 

Refresher courses are meant to "refresh" the trainees of what they learned and to learn new methods among other things. The question then is, if you take sick people, breast-feeding mothers and the very old and you frog-jump, roll and abuse them, can such people mentally prepared to learn under such conditions?

Some people may argue that some of us talk without technical know how about police work but surely, who does not know what back pain, ulcers or the cries of a 3 month babies left by their mothers? Who doesn't know that refusing to listen to people's cries is an abuse of their rights? I can say I know about suffering so to such people, don't think we don't know what we are talking about!  

So, if the news of police families' eviction and abuses at the refresher training is true, then I can say that  the senior management police has failed the police force and the country as a whole.

Peter Simon