Acting IGP Begins With Cleaning Off The Force, Reshuffles Senior Officers

The Assistant Inspector Genral of Police Jesse Kamunanwire, the Police human resource director says, Senior Commissioner of Police Venice Baguma Tumuhimbise has been appointed as the new commander of the Police’s Professional Standards Unit.Baguma replaces SCP Sarah Kibwika, who moves to deputise Lawrence Niwabiine at the Directorate of Traffic and Road Safety.

The changes have also seen SCP Joseph Obwona reappointed to as deputy director for Interpol while Assistant Commissioner of Police Julius Ceasar Tusingwire is the new commandant for the Mineral Protection Unit.  

Obwona had in December last year retired from the active service of the Force but he has been recalled on contract.

Tusingwire has previously been serving as the Regional Police Commander for Bukedi South and he has been replaced by his deputy, Senior Superintendent of Police, Fred Ahimbisibwe.

he commander of the Mineral Protection Unit Robert Ssenyondo, who has been , has been sent to the National Leadership Institute in Kyankwanzi for a refresher course.

These are the first transfers in the Police force is making since the retirement of John Martins Okoth-Ochola as the Inspector General of Police, earlier this month.

Maj Gen Godfrey Tumusiime Katsigazi is the acting police chief as the force awaits President Museveni’s appointment of the substantive IGP.