Police in Kiira region on Thursday resolved to set up suspicious incident reporting centers-SRC, along the major routes leading to Itanda falls, in Butagaya sub-county of Jinja district. This is intended to avert different forms of criminality throughout the course of the festival.
The 25 SRCs have been setup along the Jinja-Budondo-Mbulamuti road, the Jinja-Kamuli road and the Buwenge-Butagaya road.
These centers, which have been setup within the different communities neighboring Itanda falls, shall be manned by detectives whose sole mandate will be to receive and scrutinize intelligence information about suspicious activities within the area.
The information will be sourced from both local vigilantees and other volunteering members of the general public.
The intelligence information presented by detectives shall be further subjected to scrutiny by senior UPDF officers and their counterparts from police, before resolving to hunt down suspects.
While addressing journalists on Thursday afternoon, the Kiira regional police spokesperson, James Mubi said that SRC teams will boost the efforts of both the UPDF and police personnel, deployed to manage security at the festival venue.
Mubi also notes that the SRC teams will coordinate with both selected village chairpersons and GISOs, to eliminate issues of presenting security operatives with misleading information.
Mubi stresses that officers of the police’s marine unit have been deployed with the aim of deterring suspected criminal elements from accessing the festival venue through the river Nile banks from the neighboring areas of Kayunga, Buikwe and Jinja city.
Meanwhile, Elijah Madoi, the Jinja resident district commissioner, says that local divers have teamed up with officers from the police marine unit to secure revelers from drowning.
