Police to audit promoted officers-RPC

Police in greater Bushenyi region will start auditing newly promoted officers.

The regional police commander, Micheal Musani Sabila, said the move is aimed at enhancing effective performance of the police officers and accountability to Ugandans.

Speaking at the piping ceremony of the newly promoted officers in  greater Bushenyi region held at the regions headquarters on Tuesday, Musani said this is the time to clean up the force and  make it more effective to deal with the 21st century challenges.

"We have huge and many challenging tasks ahead of us. We are going to  start a new system of every officer auditing whatever he does on daily  basis,"he said.

A total of 10 officers, including Musani were promoted to various  ranks. These included Assistant superintendent of police, superitendant of police and senior superintendent of police.

Musani was promoted to the rank of senior superintendent of police,  while JohnBens Musasizi , the regional community liaison officer,  Robert Mutende, the regional crime intelligence officer and Charles m Muhereza, the Sheema OC station were all promoted to rank of assistant superintendent of police.

Musani said the promotion of the officers of which some had taken many  years was a big motivation to the officers.