Uganda Police 2010 Crime Report

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Given the Crime Investigations’ personnel strength of 4,428 by the end of 2010 it means there was a shortage of 3,878 personnel. ii) Use of obsolete equipment like magnifying glass and manual searching of finger print records etc. iii) Shortage of staff for example the bureau has only 2 Finger print experts and 1 Ballistic expert. iv) Shortage of police pathologist, currently we have only 8 and yet we need at least 18 to cover all the regions in order to handle sex offences, assaults and examination of suspects. v) Lack of money laundering legislation yet the offence in on the increase. vi) Lack of modern forensic tools for investigations yet criminals are advancing in technology. vii)

Manual handling / management of records.

viii)

Lack of road furniture (signs) on most of the highways

ix) Most of the roads are narrow x) There are persistent traffic jams in Kampala City xi) Insufficient traffic officers to man traffic management countrywide xii)

Unregulated driving schools which affects quality of the drivers

xiii)

Forgeries of driving permits and express penalty Forms

xiv)

Negative attitudes towards traffic personnel, i.e. perceived as corrupt

11.2 Recommendations a) Need to setup a well established electronic case management system (ECASE) for easy and timely record keeping and retrieval. b) Installation of an electronic crime profiling database. 50


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