{"id":24218,"date":"2016-10-10T17:23:57","date_gmt":"2016-10-10T17:23:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kfm.co.ug\/?p=24218"},"modified":"2016-10-10T17:23:57","modified_gmt":"2016-10-10T17:23:57","slug":"uganda-needs-more-30000-police-officers-gen-odong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/uganda-needs-more-30000-police-officers-gen-odong\/","title":{"rendered":"Uganda Needs More 30,000 Police Officers- Gen Odong"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Internal affairs minister Gen Jeje Odong has decried the increasing policing gap in Uganda that is failing the force\u2019s operations.<\/p>\n<p>Currently Uganda has only 45,000 police officers against a population of about 34 million.<\/p>\n<p>Addressing the media during a familiarization tour at the police headquarters earlier today, Gen Jeje Odong said the police to people ratio of 1:900 is unacceptable, thus extra efforts are needed to boost recruitment of more officers.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile,\u00a0\u00a0Gen Odong has welcomed the innovation by a Makerere University student who is said to have manufactured tear gas.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-20437 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/kfm.co.ug\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Tear-gas.jpg\" alt=\"Tear gas\" width=\"275\" height=\"183\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Tear-gas.jpg 275w, https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Tear-gas-212x140.jpg 212w, https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Tear-gas-235x155.jpg 235w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 275px) 100vw, 275px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Recently police warned Samuel Mugarura, a student of Natural Science against continuing with his innovation, saying it poses a serious security threat to the country.<\/p>\n<p>However, Gen Odong says science and innovation cannot be suffocated.<\/p>\n<p>Sory By Samuel Ssebuliba<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Internal affairs minister Gen Jeje Odong has decried the increasing policing gap in Uganda that is failing the force\u2019s operations. Currently Uganda has only 45,000 police officers against a population of about 34 million. Addressing the media during a familiarization tour at the police headquarters earlier today, Gen Jeje Odong said the police to people ratio of 1:900 is unacceptable, thus extra efforts are needed to boost recruitment of more officers. Meanwhile,\u00a0\u00a0Gen Odong has welcomed the innovation by a Makerere University student who is said to have manufactured tear gas. Recently police warned Samuel Mugarura, a student of Natural Science against continuing with his innovation, saying it poses a serious security threat to the country. However, Gen Odong says science [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":9422,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","filesize_raw":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24218"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24218\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}