The Uganda police force have today released their annual crime report for the year 2023, where the statistics indicated that there was a 1.5% decrease in the number of cases reported to their police stations throughout the country during the course of last year.
According to the inspector general of police Johns Martins Okoth Ochola the initiative is basically aimed at accounting to the general public as it’s stipulated under Article 212 of the Ugandan constitution.
“in 2023 we noted that there was a 1.5% decrease in the number of crimes reported to police from 231,653 cases reported to Police in 2022, to 228,074 in 2023.” Said Ochola
Ochola expressed his sincere gratitude to the members of the public who played a big role in ensuring that their cases of concern were reported to their various police stations across the country.
“its these reported cases that enabled us to compile the annual crime report.” Said the IGP
The IGP further disclosed that the Uganda police force has now embarked on strengthening discipline and adherence to human rights through introduction of the disciplinary courts in all the districts across the country.
“these courts aim at enforcing discipline within the force, ensuring that officers adhere to professional standards and human rights.” Ochola stated
He also cited that out of 933 complaints of human rights violations by the police, 794 were thoroughly investigated with action taken against their officers.
He also noted that the success of the uganda police force has been due to the various coordinations with the sister security agencies such as the UPDF, Prisons, SFC, ISO among others which greatly helped in combatting the various forms of crimes hence reduction in gun related crimes, illegal firearms possession and ammunition proliferation.
Meanwhile the director of the Criminal investigations directorate (CID) Magambo Tom noted that there has been an increment of 65,901 theft cases especially in the urban areas, where the causes range from social, economic and political.
Regarding the sex related cases, Magambo said there has also been a slight increment compared to the previous year where a total of 14,846 was recorded.
“this continues to keep us awake, my Lord the DPP will tell you how it’s painful finding young people especially our children being defiled and taken advantage of.” CID director narrated
He also disclosed a decline in the number of assault cases being reported to their police stations where last year they recorded 32,041 declining to a total of 29,884 cases.
The report also recorded a decline in the number of domestic violence cases totaling to 14,681 cases.
“we’ve previously witnessed terrible cases in homes where the wives kill their husbands and husband kill their wives. Sometimes struggling over simple things like domestic food and so on.” Said Magambo
Other crime reports included the following;-
-Economic crimes reduced to 12,924 compared to last year’s 13,202
-Child related offences declined from 13,489 to 10,747
-Malicious damage to property increased from 7,838 to 8,043
-Robberies increased from 6,854 to 7,768
-Homicides increased from 4,043 to 4,248 cases
The inspector general of police Martin Okoth Ochola in conclusion called for the improvement of the general wage of the security personnel, conduction of specialised training for the officers including carrying out more recruitment to address the police population ratio challenge.
Story by: Derrick kanalo
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