Frankfurt am Main, Germany | AFP | Three people were hurt Saturday when a car ploughed into pedestrians in the southern German city of Heidelberg, said police, who shot and wounded the driver. After the crash, which injured one person seriously, the driver escaped on foot armed with a knife …
Read More »Britain names first woman top police officer
London, United Kingdom | AFP | A woman will become Britain’s most senior police officer for the first time, the government announced on Wednesday, a controversial move due to her involvement in a fatal London shooting. Cressida Dick, 56, will succeed Bernard Hogan-Howe as commissioner of London’s Metropolitan Police, returning …
Read More »VIDEO: Nsambya Policeman kills wife, shoots self
VIDEO: Police suspects that an officer who killed his wife before shooting himself dead at Nsambya barracks in Kampala could have planned his death. This follows the discovery of a handwritten will just days before Thursday’s incident. It is reported that the police constable signed for a gun, returned to …
Read More »Six teenagers found dead after garden party in Germany
Frankfurt am Main, Germany | AFP | Six teenagers were found dead Sunday after holding a party in a garden shed, said police in Germany who suggested carbon monoxide poisoning may have been the cause. The youths, five young men and a young woman. were found by the owner of …
Read More »VIDEO: Scores netted for smoking Shisha in public
VIDEO: Police in Kampala on Saturday night arrested scores of revelers accused of smoking the banned shisha. The operation conducted in the City’s major high end bars targeted smokers and sellers of the addictive tobacco. Share on: WhatsApp
Read More »Police fight fire at Ministry of Health HQ, Wandegeya
Fire destroys property at the ministry of health. pic.twitter.com/Pwk1BNgJ0r — Apollo Mubiru (@ApolloMubiru) January 8, 2017 Uganda Police are battling a fire at the Ministry of Health headquarters in Kampala. The cause of the fire has not been established but the fire brigade was on the scene soon after, …
Read More »VIDEO: Gen Kayihura apologises to Muslims over mosques raid
VIDEO: The Inspector General of the Uganda Police Force Gen. Kale Kayihura has apologized to the Uganda Muslim Supreme Council for last week’s police raids on Nakasero and Kiwatule Mosques. This was during a closed door meeting held today with the Deputy Mufti of Uganda Sheikh Abdallah Semambo in his …
Read More »Police release 13 arrested after raid on Kiwatule Mosque
The Police has released without charge 13 Muslims picked up Thursday night at Masjid Abubakar Sudiq Mosque in Kiwatule over suspected terrorist activities. According to the Spokesperson of Kampala Metropolitan Police Emilian Kayima, officers raided the mosque following a tip off from the residents who were suspicious of the presence of …
Read More »Post-mortem on pop icon George Michael ‘inconclusive’
London, United Kingdom | AFP | A post-mortem examination on the body of pop icon George Michael, who died on Christmas Day after a chart-topping career and years of drug-taking, has proved “inconclusive”, police said on Friday. “The cause of death is inconclusive and further tests will now be carried …
Read More »Italy salutes hero cops who took down Berlin attack suspect
Rome, Italy | AFP | Italy on Friday hailed its police officer heroes who caught Berlin truck attack suspect Anis Amri on the streets of Milan, with high praise for the rookie who shot him dead. Tributes flooded in for Luca Scata, the 29-year-old Sicilian trainee who fired off two …
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