Police deploy special force for elections

Feb 05, 2011

THE Inspector General of Police, Maj. Gen. Kale Kayihura, has deployed a specialised force of 200 officers in Sembabule district to counter election violence.

By Dismus Buregyeya   

THE Inspector General of Police, Maj. Gen. Kale Kayihura, has deployed a specialised force of 200 officers in Sembabule district to counter election violence.

The police were received by the security committee at the district headquarters on Wednesday. The district got the largest number of stand-by troops, which will also counter election violence in neighboring districts, according to the Sembabule Police chief, Steven Tanui.

The troops recently completed a refresher course on rescue, anti-riot missions and election management.

Tanui added: “We are going to remove all the officers in charge of Police posts in the district. if you have been planning to use them in the elections forget it, because we shall have new faces.”

He said the troops will particularly be deployed in the habitually troublesome areas of Lwemiyaga and Mateete.

He noted that so far the situation in Sembabule was calm and that the police had not received any serious cases of election violence.

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