Commissioner Martin Okoth Ochola has named Charles Twine as the new Officer in Charge of Parliament investigations. Twine is the spokesperson for the Criminal Investigations Directorate (CID).
Twine has been a CID Spokesperson for three years, but he recently became silent under the new CID director, Assistant Inspector General of Police—AIGP Tom Magambo. It was difficult to get him to respond to any crime-related inquiry, something that left many journalists wondering what had befallen him.
In the reshuffles that have been announced for police radio communication, IGP Ochola has moved Twine to parliament even though he has not appointed any other person to serve as CID spokesperson.
By press time, 331 names had been posted on the police communication platform as having been appointed or transferred to new places. All the way down to the rank of Assistant Inspector of Police, the officers were moved.
The majority of the appointed officers are the ones who last month completed a one-year course at Bwebajja Police College. CP Dennis Tumuhimbise has been named deputy CID director, replacing CP Katto Paul Tumuhimbise. CP Katto Paul Tumuhimbise has been replaced by CP Dennis Tumuhimbise.
CP Katto, who was also deputy to former CID director AIGP Grace Akullo, has been appointed head of the Anti-Money Laundering Taskforce. CP Tumuhimbise, who is now second in command of CID, has been head of the anti-human trafficking in persons department.
SSP Mark Odong has been named the commandant of the Kireka Special Investigations Division (SID), and he will be in charge of that division.Internal affairs’ anti-human trafficking department now has a new leader: ACP Julis Twinomujuni, who used to be the head of that department.
SSP Bernard Muhumuza has been appointed head of the anti-narcotics department, replacing Superintendent of Police (SP) Tinka Zarugaba. SSP Henry Mugumya, who has been head of the electoral and political offenses department, is now in charge of the organized crime unit.
SP Patrick Onyango, who also completed the one-year course, has been reappointed Kampala metropolitan police spokesperson. SP Michael Kasigyire, who was formerly at Kira Road and Entebbe police station, is now at Kikuube DPC, whereas SP Sailus Omara is now security incharge of Makerere University.