{"id":16754,"date":"2026-03-24T16:53:43","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T16:53:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ugandaupdatenews.com\/?p=16754"},"modified":"2026-03-24T16:57:15","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T16:57:15","slug":"over-7000-special-police-constables-under-take-one-month-refresher-training-in-soroti-to-join-private-security","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/over-7000-special-police-constables-under-take-one-month-refresher-training-in-soroti-to-join-private-security\/","title":{"rendered":"Over 7,000 Special Police Constables Under Take One Month Refresher Training In Soroti To Join Private Security\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

By Our Reporters, in Olilim, Katakwi<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Over 7000 de-commissioned Election Special Police Constables have commenced training to enable them join Private Security Organisations (PSOs).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The one-month intensive training programme to equip the over 7000 former Police Constables that were hired to police the election exercise opened at the Uganda Police Counter Terrorism Training School in Olilim in Katakwi District today (Tuesday).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Representing the Uganda Police Force Director of Human Resources Development and Training, AIGP Moses Kafeero, the Acting Commissioner of Police in charge general training, Moses Byabagye, said the former Police Constables have effectively be passed over to the Private Security Organisations to boost their capacity and provide alternative formal employment after the expiry of of their contract with government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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“As Police we are grateful to the Private Security Organisations through their umbrella body, the Uganda Private Security Association (TUPSA) for taking over these former election Police Constables. After the expiry of their contract with Police, these young men and women have been given alternative source of employment. These numbers will improve and strengthen the capacity of the private security companies” he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Uganda Private Security Association Chairman, Mr. Grace Matsiko, hailed the Inspector General of Police, Abbas Byakagaba ,for coming up with the proposal to the private security organizations to take over the former Police Constables.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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“We are grateful to the\u00a0 Inspector General of Police, Abbas Byakagaba, for supporting the private security to take over the former Police Constables because these young men and women were bound to be redundant after their engagement with government ended. Police has provided us with the training school at no cost, food to feed the trainees, medicine, instructors and other logistics to train these trainees” Matsiko said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Commandant Olilim Counterterrorism training school, SSP Jasper Oloka ,said the countrywide exercise has attracted 5048 males and 2074 females, making a total of 7122 trainees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The trainees in addition to earlier Police training will receive training in law enforcement, crime detection and investigation as well knowledge about private security mandate in domestic security.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Editor:msserwanga@gmail.com<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Our Reporters, in Olilim, Katakwi Over 7000 de-commissioned Election Special Police Constables have commenced training to enable them join<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16755,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/tus3-scaled.jpg","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":16411,"url":"https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/private-security-to-take-over-90000-election-constables\/","url_meta":{"origin":16754,"position":0},"title":"Private security to take over 90,000 Election Constables","author":"UgandaUpdate","date":"February 5, 2026","format":false,"excerpt":"The Inspector General of Police, Abbas Byakagaba, has encouraged Private Security to take over the Election Police Constables soon to be decommissioned following the end of the general elections cycle which the constables were recruited and trained to protect.\u00a0 The IGP was addressing the Executive Members of the Uganda Private\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "National News"","block_context":{"text":"National News","link":"https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/category\/national-news\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/po-1.jpeg","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/po-1.jpeg 1x, https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/po-1.jpeg 1.5x, https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/po-1.jpeg 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":16998,"url":"https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/electoral-commission-to-pay-2026-general-elections-polling-officials-allowances\/","url_meta":{"origin":16754,"position":1},"title":"Electoral Commission To Pay 2026 General Elections Polling Officials\u2019 Allowances","author":"UgandaUpdate","date":"April 27, 2026","format":false,"excerpt":"The Electoral Commission of Uganda has commenced payment of allowances for temporary election officials who served during the 2025 \u20132026 Uganda General Elections. 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