The Chief Political Commissar, Uganda Police AIGP Asan Kasingye has urged police officers in the Rwenzori region to embrace team work for better and effective service delivery to the community.
Kasingye, currently on a rectification campaign exercise and ideological orientation tour in Rwenzori region together with a team of senior police officers said team work is the vehicle that can safely deliver efficient and effective policing services to communities.
“It’s only through team work and coordination that you can serve effectively, identify weaknesses, strengthen each other and utilize them and plan to work together. That’s when we shall have a police force that serves diligently and effectively,” he said.
He also warned officers against all acts of corruption, bribery, abuse of human rights which he said dent the image of the force adding, that the police top management will not tolerate such acts.
He further urged officers to be disciplined, shun acts such as being drankards, negligence of duty, misuse of guns among others.
He called upon Senior officers not only to instill discipline but also mentor and counsel affected officers. Supervision, command and control must be exercised and implemented.
Kasingye emphasised hard work in a bid to promote the community policing ideology which he said is the only way of fighting crime and getting information from the public.