Museveni, police bosses meet over city gangs
Senior police commanders led by the Deputy Inspector General of Police, Maj Gen Stephen Sabiiti Muzeeyi, Thursday presented to President Museveni their plan on how to combat criminal gangs in Kampala and surrounding areas.
The move comes after the President on Tuesday gave Gen Sabiiti two days to present a security plan to defeat gangs that break into homes and offices, making off with property.
The deputy police spokesperson, Ms Polly Namaye, who attended the meeting, declined to reveal details of the plan, saying they were fine-tuning it and would share it Friday.
However, a police source said as part of the plan, the President sanctioned the second phase of an operation code-named Tokoora (which literary means ‘remove the speck from the eye’) that will deal with hardcore criminals in the city. A senior police officer, who attended the meeting, said they agreed to strengthen intelligence in prisons since most of those arrested over masterminding crime are past convicts.
District police commanders and UPDF commanders in Kampala Metropolitan Police area are to meet today for a briefing of the new instructions and each is supposed to come with a list of contacts and names of local council leaders.
The criminals, ranging from four to seven, and armed with machetes, housebreaking implements and sometimes firearms, have been attacking homes and making off with home appliances, cars and money.
