Police officers are on tenterhooks after the Inspector General of Police (IGP) started implementing the presidential directive of the Sub County Policing Model (SCPM).
Some of the police officers were found worried and in fear of leaving their comfort life in Kampala city to be deployed in remote areas.
Others were in fear of the files that they were handling in towns where they expected good facilitations while some where used of the evening outings to relaxation place that may hardly be found in villages.
Launching this program today at police headquarters in Naguru, IGP Abbas Byakagaba noted that he is implementing the presidential executive order No 3 of 2023 stopping police being in Kampala and become a Uganda police as it was planned.
The operationalization of the program has taken shape with reorganization and rationalization of the existing UPF resources.
Byakagaba said that eight (08) regions with 49 Districts and 591 sub counties have been covered.
This is a concept through which Police will deploy 18 police officers per Sub County at the minimum with motorcycles, radios and other capabilities to ensure effective policing.
Christopher Yiga, the Director criminal intelligence noted that the roll out of this program has started with redeployment of thousands of personnel to every Sub County.
