By Morish Dramadri

Arua City

The Uganda Police force has embarked on consultation with the various stakeholders in West Nile region to seek their views on the ongoing formation of the new police doctrine which aims to encompass every policy in the force.

A team led by the acting chief commissioner of Uganda police, SCP Hadijjah Namutebi is currently in West Nile to meet civil, political, religious and cultural leaders to obtain better ideas to form the police doctrine intended to serve for about 100 years.

Addressing the media in Arua city on Monday 11^th December 2023, Senior Commissioner of Police Hadijah Namutebi revealed that the many things have change thus the need to have a central document to guide the police. “We cannot get stuck to the3 old way we have been doing things.

We have been policing basing on the old rules and regulations scattered from different documents, now we are coming up with everything the principles to be put in one document so that at least we have a central reference where we refer all our policing activities.” SCP Hadijjah Namutebi alluded.

Among the policing activities to be guided by this new doctrine include; police recruitment strategies and training, transfer and deployment policy, retirement and policies relating to other benefits.

Senior supretenandant of police Josephine Angucia the West Nile regional police spokesperson is optimistic that this new doctrine will address the issues of new crimes emanating from the advancement in technology. “Crime trends have changed, formerly some crime were not there when the police doctrine was formed but now we have so many crimes like cyber-crimes which need new policies, new strategies towards approaching them, so I believe development of police doctrine will highly help in fighting and averting crime in the West Nile region and the whole country”, SSP. Angucia believed.

Uganda Police Force developed the idea of having a new doctrine for the force in around 2015 but has been facing financial challenges over the past years.

COVER PHOTO: Officials from the Police headquarter in a group photo with the Police officers from the districts in West Nile during a consultative meeting in Arua city on Monday. By Morish Dramadri