By Editorial
Police have acquired a set of 65 new equipment worth billions of shillings that will among others be used to deal with civil disobedience in the country.
The equipment including 15 armored personnel carriers and 50 riot control vehicles was yesterday unveiled by the Deputy Inspector General of Police, Maj Gen Geoffrey Katsigazi Tumusiime at the Police headquarters in Naguru.
Speaking at the function, the Police Logistics director, AIGP Richard Edyegu described the equipment as state of the art that will be used to address emerging challenges in their day today policing of the country.
AIGP Edyegu said the main objective of the equipment was to equip the Filed Force Unit with improved versions of armored personnel carriers and riot control vehicles that would handle the current operational challenges but to also improve the Anti Stock Theft Unit in Karamoja by providing personnel with safer and quicker means of transport as they protect the people in those areas.
He said part of the same equipment that was ordered for two years before the lockdown will be taken to Somalia to replace the old armored personnel carriers used by the Uganda Police Force component deployed in the country.
He said whereas part of the fleet had arrived, another set is still at Mombasa and will son arrive into the country. END