Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Up to 99 Police Officers have been appointed commanders and heads of Criminal Investigation Departments – CID at various police divisions and stations. Another 32 female police officers at the rank of Assistant Superintendent of Police –ASP have been appointed to command investigations departments …
Read More »Three arrested over illegal possession of ivory
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Criminal Investigations Directorate –CID has arrested three people over illegal possession of ivory valued at 76 million shillings. Charles Twine, the CID Spokesperson says that the suspects Dickens Opio, Denis Otuku and James Oluyi, were arrested from Oyam district. Twine, who is also …
Read More »Files of teachers accused of sodomy, defilement handed to DPP
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Criminal Investigations Directorate –CID has forwarded the files of two teachers accused of sodomizing and defiling their pupils to the Directorate of Public Prosecution- DPP. One of the suspects whose names haven’t been disclosed is a teacher at King Fahad Islamic primary school …
Read More »Police raids scrap dealers over stolen materials
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Tension was high in the city center on Monday afternoon during a joint operation by the Field Force Police –FFP, Crime Intelligence –CI and Criminal Investigations Directorate –CID against scrap dealers suspected of selling stolen copper wires from electrical installations and masts. Dressed in blue …
Read More »PS Atwine, Segawa record statements with CID over unlawful expenditure of UGX 6 Billion
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Health Ministry, Permanent Secretary, Dr. Diana Atwine and Under Secretary, Ronald Segawa, have recorded statements with the Criminal Investigations Department for unlawful expenditure of shillings 6 billion. The duo was handed over to the CID by the Public Accounts Committee chaired by its …
Read More »CID investigating Hoima land evictions
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | A team of detectives from the Land Protection Unit at the Criminal Investigations Department-CID headquarters Kibuli has pitched camp in Hoima district to investigate the violent eviction of over 2,000 people from their homes in Katerega parish in Buhanika sub-county in Hoima district. The officers …
Read More »50 Secondary schools under probe for inflating USE enrollment
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Criminal Investigations Directorate –CID is investigating more than 50 private secondary schools on allegations of inflating Universal Secondary Education –USE student enrollment to fleece the government billions of money. Charles Twine, CID Spokesperson, says that a probe is underway to establish how the …
Read More »Police raise alarm over rampant child murders
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Police have raised an alarm of increasing incidents of child murders in the last three months. They have tasked community leaders and parents to be ensure child protection. Records at Criminal Investigation Directorate –CID released by police spokesperson, Fred Enanga, show 32 children have …
Read More »PAC calls for fresh probe into Luweero-Rwenzori veterans payments
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) of Parliament has resolved to conduct further investigations into payments to different beneficiaries under the Luwero-Rwenzori Triangle Initiative, commonly referred to as Akasiimo. PAC Chairperson Nathan Nandala Mafabi tasked the Criminal Investigations and Intelligence Directorate (CID) and the National Identification …
Read More »Police teams guard, probe Anite’s death threats
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Uganda Police Force is investigating the death threats against the State Minister for Privatization, Evelyn Anite. Police spokesperson, Fred Enanga, says police teams from the Criminal Investigations Directorate–CID and other critical units within the police force have started investigating the threats against Anite. He says …
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