At most business premises like Banks, shopping malls and arcades, where the private security personnel are deployed, sanitising, enforcement of washing hands and measuring temperature have been left to the security guards.
In his speech, Museveni said with the CCTVs in place, criminals will to suffer as cameras are in position to capture their activities in places from as far as 30kms. He said government will install cameras on highways and start the digital registration of motor vehicle and motorcycle number plates in the second phase.
Jackson Sande and Emmanuel Nakeriya, who are attached to Tiger Security Group Limited and Securex Security Company respectively, were rewarded for killing and wrestling down armed robbers at their workstations in Kampala.
Police Spokesperson, Fred Enanga, says all the 26 teams have already presented documents of the recruits, which have been scrutnised in collaboration with Uganda National Examination Board (UNEB).
Julius Hakiza, the Albertine Region Police Spokesperson has confirmed the development, saying the King was unhappy with the sound of guns being fired by the officers in the kingdom chambers, which is about 100 meters from his palace.
Recently, Ochola disclosed that the Director of Operations Uganda Police Force, Asuman Mugyenyi presented a list of the private security firms and their contracts to his office for renewal but he declined to sign them.
The sensitive security documents end up with snack vendors in Kamwokya suburbs who use them to wrap eats such as chips, samosas and mandazi for their customers.
According to the quarterly budget performance report for the financial year 2017/2018 and 2018/19 of the force, under non-tax revenue of up to 21.9bn in the financial year 2017/2018, 1.5bn was collected from firearms licensing and 1.1 collected from hiring.
The move is in response to a directive by the Inspector General of Police-IGP, Martin Okoth Ochola a week ago to withdraw all police officers deployed on guard duties to return to their duty stations.
