Police officers warned against mismanaging defilement cases

Jun 19, 2011

POLICE officers should stop releasing defilement suspects without taking them to court, the assistant inspector general of Police, Asan Kasingye, has warned.

By Egesa Hajusu

POLICE officers should stop releasing defilement suspects without taking them to court, the assistant inspector general of Police, Asan Kasingye, has warned.

Speaking during the celebrations to mark the Day of the African Child at Busia Integrated Primary School on Thursday, Kasingye said defilement came second to domestic violence in crimes committed in Busia district.

“The crime has greatly hampered the education of the girl-child,” he said.

Kasingye, who represented the Inspector General of Police, Kale Kayihura, commissioned a building constructed by the World Vision at Busia Police Station.

The structure houses the family and child office, a computer room, a counselling room and two cells for children.

Kasingye said the Police had dedicated this year to family and child protection and promised to take stringent measures against officers frustrating this objective.

World Vision regional programme manager Sam Tukei appealed to the Police to recruit more surgeons and to allow clinical officers at health centre IIIs to handle defilement cases to speed up investigations.

He commended the Police for sensitising the community on child rights.

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