Revised Security Plan: Police Issue Contacts List

By Fred Kiva

Police in Kampala Metropolitan Area (KMP) has listed counter telephone numbers of the various police stations for the public to easily reach out to them and report crime.

The police contacts list issued on Tuesday is part of the revised security plan to fight criminal gangs, as announced by the Deputy Inspector General of Police Maj Gen Sabiiti Muzeeyi on Friday. The revised security plan focuses on a number of measures among them, improved linkage with the public, as well as public awareness. KMP will be zoned and each family in a zoned area of responsibility, shall be given a telephone line of the nearest station or post.

“The public is encouraged to share all relevant information on all matters of security including distress calls. We shall put suggestion boxes at the stations and LC offices. Messages will only be accessed by a select team and all the messages will be treated with confidentiality. The public can also deliver text messages or whatsapp messages on 0707114114,” the Deputy IGP said.

The Police counter telephone numbers list is now an addition to the contact provided by Gen Sabiiti. The revised security plan is in response to President Museveni’s directive to the Deputy IGP last Tuesday, giving Gen Sabiiti a fourty-eight hour ultimatum to furnish him with a detailed plan to fight criminal gangs that rob and kill residents within Kampala City and the surrounding areas.

“I have given two days to Commander Sabiiti of the Police to come out with a plan to combat these gangs. The IGP is away in Peru for a meeting. I will look at that plan, comment on it and it will, then, be communicated to all of you,” the President said adding: “These are gangs we shall easily defeat. That is what we did with the Kiddawalime gang in Masaka, the gang of Bukomero, the gang of Entebbe etc.”

The criminal gangs have killed several people using machetes and iron bars. While relaying the revised security plan at police headquarters Naguru, Gen Sabiiti also expressed optimism that the gangs would be dismantled, since security already have vital clues. “We have enough intelligence, we shall be updating you after the action,” he said.