As the Police force gears up to celebrate the community Policing Week slated to take place on October 3, 2017 at the Nkumba University play Ground, IGP Kale Kayihura paid a courtesy visit to Nkumba University on Thursday where he tipped the students on community Policing and personal security following the rampant murders of Women in Katabi Town Council.
In his address, Kayihura indicated that community policing entails offering preventive measures to security challenges in the community rather than being offensive.
“With community policing, I expect the Police officers, look-out teams and crime preventers to be based in the communities identifying security challenges and solving them and not sitting at the Police Stations and Police posts. Through community policing, we also build Partnerships for problem solving and we are also enhancing operational policing through the Mayumba Kumi, lookout teams, motorcycle Police patrols and call centers”, Kayihura revealed.
On the rampant murders of women, Kayihura disclosed that an additional 400 police officers have been deployed in Katabi Town Council both on motorcycle and foot patrols to bolster security in Katabi Town Council. He revealed that out of the 26 arrested suspects in connection to the murders of 23 women both in Katabi Town Council and Nansana, 13 have been produced in court and remanded on murder, aggravated robbery and terrorism charges.
“We have made several arrests and the suspects have been produced in court on murder charges as we continue with our investigations. Our investigations indicate that the murders of women rotate around crimes of passion, domestic violence and organized crime. The lack of forensic capacity has derailed our investigations which would help in linking the suspects to the scenes of crime using the evidence we have obtained from the scenes. ”, Kayihura said.
Meanwhile Kayihura noted that Katabi Town Council harbours over 100 shrines with the witch doctors masquerading as traditional healers and engaging in crime.
