Security agencies intensify surveillance amid renewed terror threats
By Ronald Ssenvuma
Security agencies have intensified surveillance in Kampala and across the country amid renewed terror threats to the country.
Yesterday, an Anti-terrorism crack unit comprising experts from police, army, and sister security agencies arrested a 28-year-old man said was on the verge of blasting an Improvised Explosive Device at Rubaga Mirale Center in Kampala.
“In the bag … there was an IED … the food flask [contained powder], nails, battery of a motorcycle, which was the charger, [he] had used a [mobile] phone [handset] which was supposed to be a switch for it, detonator, booster charger…,” said Mr Patrick Onyango, the Kampala Metropolitan Police spokesman.
Meanwhile, a group of 70 District/Division CID officers is set to commence their 4-month Refresher Course at the Police Training School in Kabalye, Masindi.
These were officially flagged off yesterday by the Director of the Criminal Investigations Directorate.
According to a statement from the Directorate, the training aims at enhancing their skills and capabilities to effectively tackle the existing and emerging threats to law and order in the country.
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