The country’s annual crime rate has gone down by 8.9% in 2020, Inspector General of Police Martins Okoth Ochola has revealed.
‘Generally, in the year 2020, there was 8.9% decrease in the volume of crimes reported to Police from 215,224 cases reported in 2019 to 195,931 cases reported in the year 2020,’ he said.
Ochola was on Monday releasing the country’s annual crime report at the Police headquarters in Naguru, Kampala.
According to Ochola, there was also a 4.7% reduction in the number of traffic accidents reported in 2020 from 12,858 reported in 2019 to 12,249 accidents reported in 2020.
‘On the contrary, in terms of Fire and Rescue emergencies, there was a 1.6% increase in incidents handled, from 999 incidents handled in 2019 to 1,015 handled in 2020,’ the report noted.
Ochola said that as Uganda evolves and grows in science and technologies, so too the Police Force must adopt to these developments and take on roles that reflect the changing values and expectations of the society they seek to protect.