Police Starts Screening 2,500 Applicants

The Police Directorate of human resource management has started screening more than 2,500 applicants for the 1,000 vacancies. Police in May announced vacancies of 850 Probation Police Constables and 150 Constable drivers totaling 1,000.

However, the exercise suffered a setback when more than 90 percent of the first applicants were taken by the army and Uganda Prisons Service because police delayed conducting interviews even though it was the first to announce vacancies.

The army recruited 10,000 LDU soldiers while Prisons Service recruited 1,152 warders and wardresses.

  Police Spokesperson, Fred Enanga, says that the lists of shortlisted applicants have been sent to their respective districts where they will appear for medical, fitness, aptitude, and moral tests. All these tests will be concluded by the end of next week.

“We also want to inform applicants that dates for the interviews for PPC positions are out and we have brought out a program that will include fitness test, aptitude test, moral test, medical test, and driving test for those who applied as drivers,” Enanga said.

URN understands that the human resource director, Brig Jesse Kamunanwire, directed Regional Police Commanders –RPCs to ensure that three people are recruited for each position so that there is no need of going back to the field in case they find many gaps in their academic and medical documents.

“We had a challenge in the last intake. We recruited 5,000 and after they had spent three weeks on training, we noticed many had lied about their age, many had forged documents and others had serious medical issues they had concealed. That is why we were directed to have at least three applicants for each position,” a police officer explained.

When such issues occurred in the last intake, the Inspector General of Police, Martin Ochola, re-advertised vacancies of over 2000 PPCs and Learner Assistant Inspectors of Police –AIPs. The IGP also increased the age sealing for PPCs from 22 to 25 while LAIPs was increased from 25 to 28. 

Enanga said all screening exercises will be conducted at the headquarters of the 28 policing regions between September 25 and 29. For instance, those in Katonga region which takes over Mpigi, Gomba, and Butambala will be screened on September 26, at Mpigi police headquarters.

Applicants in Albertine region that covers districts of Hoima, Kibaale, Kagadi, Kiryandongo, Masindi, Kakumiro, Buliisa, and Kikuube will be tested and screened on September 27 in Hoima City.

Other regions like Savannah will hold the screening exercise in Luweero on September 28, Greater Bushenyi will be in Bushenyi on September 26, Karamoja will be at Mt Moroto on September 27, and Wamala will be at Mityana district headquarters on September 29.

Although police lower the academic qualifications from four credits in O Level exams to one credit, applicants have been urged to report with original copies of their academic credentials and a National ID.