{UAH} Kayihura Handover Report Leaks, Bean Weevil Writes about Corrupt officers who broke his back

https://spyreports.net/2018/03/14/kayihura-handover-report-leaks-bean-weevil-writes-about-corrupt-officers-who-broke-his-back/

Outgoing Inspector General of Police General Kale Kayihura's hand over report to his successor Martin Okoth Ochola has leaked to SpyReports, we can exclusively report.

In a thirteen paged report, the former police chief who was replaced by his deputy highlights many achievements during his 12 years at the helm of police leadership but also outlines many challenges which he says were created by his own officers.

Gen Kale Kayihura is scheduled to handover office tomorrow Friday at 10 at police headquarters in Naguru.

According to the report seen by this investigative website shows that, in the period he spent in office from 2005 up to the day he was sacked,  he managed to build over 80 police divisions, increase on police directorates from 5-18, specialized units from 4-19, Police Regions from 11-28, police division from 80-142 and police stations from 101-1676 while police posts stand at 1663 country wide.

Uganda police headquarters in Naguru constructed under Kayihura

Kayihura notes that at the time he joined police replacing then Maj Gen Edward Katumba Wamala now full General, police was receiving only shs 86bn as budget but during his tenure he has gradually transformed it to the whooping shs540bn annually.

He also adds that when he came in office, the force had two training facilities of Kibuli and Masindi but he managed to build other police training facilities including Police senior Police command and staff collage Bwebajja, Police training school Kabalye-Masindi, Police training school Ikafe, Yumbe district for public order management, police training school Olilim Katakwi district for counter terrorism and the proposed Kikandwa for police University.

Kabalye police training school administration block constructed under Gen Kayihura

Human Resource Capacity

The General says the numbers of the force's strength has steadily been built over the years through regular recruitment from 14000 in 2005 to 43452 in 2018 and that the police to population ratio have also increased over twelve years from 1:1734 in 2005 to 1:8005 in 2018 which he says has led to increased police visibility countrywide.

"Although the ratio has improved the force strength is still below the international standards of 1:500.

Police officers undergoing training in Masindi

Human Resource Development

He explains that he has been able to address the challenge of professionalism through a number of initiatives including developing a training policy, curriculum development for all levels, general and specialized training and bridging course.

Senior police officers doing their exams at Bwebajja police collage

He notes that there is still a training backlog which could not be addressed because of inadequate funding.

Infrastructure development

The former police chief also says the force under his leadership has undertaken heavy investment in infrastructure expansions, renovations and developments not only to improve the working and living conditions and improves service delivery in areas of Uganda.

Part of police modern housing units constructed by Kayihura near completion in Naguru

Since 2005 when he joined the force, 75 police multibillion projects have been undertaken across the country have been constructed and some still under construction or the process still in pipeline.

Crime

Gen Kayihura writes that the force has registered a decline in crime rate which he says was 413 per 100,000 persons in 2005 compared to 294 per 100,000 at the end of 2017.

Scene of Crime officers show casing their skills at Kabalye in Masindi district

Police Welfare

He notes that welfare remains a major challenge to the force but says a number of interventions have been made to alleviate the situation.

They include creation of the directorate of welfare and production to spearhead force welfare initiatives, creation of directorate of police health services to support health care of police officers, creation of Exodus Sacco to promote a culture of saving among officers among others.

Exodus Sacco canteen generates income for the sacco

Ongoing Projects

Gen Kayihura has left in place major projects including  construction of 17 blocks each of 60 housing units at Naguru, Police central armory at Nagalama, Specialized Diagnostic center at Kololo, Logistic and Engineering directorate headquarters at Namanve, Kabale police regional headquarters, Budaka police station, Police helicopter mantainace center in Jinja and installation of CCTV systems in all high ways and urban centers and acquisition of a fixed wing aircraft whose delivery is expected in August this year.

A regional Forensic region center was recently commissioned at Naguru under Gen Kayihura leadership.

Challenges

He highlights key challenges facing the force including emerging new crimes like cyber-crimes, betting and gambling, kidnappings for ransom, human and drug trafficking, land conflicts , residual terrorism and organized crimes.

Police spokesperson Emillian Kayima displaying some drugs intercept at airport.

Kayihura also writes that there is insufficient budget allocation resulting into unfunded and underfunded priorities. He says funding stands at 51% of the required budget.

He also decries outstanding bills amounting to 125.9bn stifling performance, case backlog standing at 159663 cases and 700 forensic cases as at 2017.

Some of police trainees from Kabalye doing corporate social responsibility by cleaning Masindi town.

He also cites negative public perception because of corrupt and inefficient police officers and lack of ideological orientation of some police officers.

 

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