The Uganda Police Force will suffer a budget Shortfall of Shs 936.7 billion in core priority areas.<\/p>\n
In the ministerial policy statement for 2018\/2019 presented to parliament by the undersecretary ministry of internal affairs Rogers Muhairwe, the force has a Budget requirement of Shs 1.08 trillion, for the Staff Housing Project, Criminal Investigation as well as E-Policing and salary arrears.<\/p>\n
The E-Policing Project which requires 458 billion shillings for a CCTV Network was not allocated money yet out of the required 114 billion for Criminal Investigations and Intelligence, only nine billion was provided leaving a funding gap of Shs 105 billion.<\/p>\n
The Police Force is also grappling with 126 billion for Arrears and Outstanding Bills but only 31 billion shillings has been provided.<\/p>\n
Other neglected critical arrears include; a modern mechanical system, feeding in operations as well as fuel, oil and lubricants, rent, Utilities and vehicle repairs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Uganda Police Force will suffer a budget Shortfall of Shs 936.7 billion in core priority areas. In the ministerial policy statement for 2018\/2019 presented to parliament by the undersecretary ministry of internal affairs Rogers Muhairwe, the force has a Budget requirement of Shs 1.08 trillion, for the Staff Housing Project, Criminal Investigation as well as E-Policing and salary arrears. The E-Policing Project which requires 458 billion shillings for a CCTV Network was not allocated money yet out of the required 114 billion for Criminal Investigations and Intelligence, only nine billion was provided leaving a funding gap of Shs 105 billion. The Police Force is also grappling with 126 billion for Arrears and Outstanding Bills but only 31 billion shillings […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":34403,"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":[134,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national-news-news","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34402"}],"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\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34402\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}