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Karamoja Sub-region is set to get seven community police posts and staff quarters for police officers with the hope of improving security. The Office of the Prime Minister-OPM contracted seven firms last year to...

Pastor Geoffrey Ssemwogerere of New Jerusalem Church in Seguku in Wakiso district is behind bars at Kajjansi police station for allegedly chaining 12 people to purportedly heal them from mental...

Mercy Nyandoi, 15, student at Rubongi Army Secondary School has been electrocuted to death as she tapped a hanging electric wire in the compound of the school.  Maj. Isaac Oware,...

A convicted inmate at Namalu prisons in Nakapiripirit district is facing fresh charges of assault. Wilson Magombe from Mayuge district, who was sentenced in 2013 to 17 years in jail for aggravated defilement...

Two men have earned themselves a jail term of forty years for attempting to murder a six-year-old boy. Kayunga Chief Magistrate, Sarah Tusiime sentenced Awali Kivumbi and Paul Ngwaswireki, both residents of Busolo Village...

Police have recovered a lifeless body of an unidentified boy from an abandoned fishpond in Luubu village in Bukabooli Sub County in Mayuge district. Herdsmen sighted the body that was floating...

Kiira Region Police Marine Unit has rescued four tourists from River Nile. The four tourists were part of the revelers who turned up for the just concluded four-day Nyege-Nyege festival...

The Traffic Police, Field Force Unit-FFU, and the Military Police have launched joint security operations targeting errant motorists driving with impunity. Traffic Police spokesperson, Faridah Nampiima, says that the operation follows a...

Kampala Metropolitan Police have dismissed reports that Police Constable Coled Twesigye from Kyanja Community Police Post committed suicide by shooting himself in the head. News about Twesigye’s alleged suicide started circulating on...

Three people are in police custody in Terego district for illegally growing marijuana. The suspects were picked up in intelligence-led operations in Obayiya village, Anavu Parish, Katrini Sub-county in Terego district...