Police in Kampala have taken 10 officers into custody over allegations of robbing Shs146m from suspected thieves accused of stealing Shs407m from a Burundian national on April 27, 2023.
Three men on a motorcycle, according to investigators, grabbed a bag containing $110,000 (Shs407m) and Euros700 (Shs2.9m) from their victim shortly after he exited a forex bureau in Makindye, a city suburb.The Burundian national passed out upon losing the money, but volunteers resuscitated him before one of the helpers telephoned a police informer the same day to alert law enforcement about the crime.
Detectives found out that the interlocutor contacted Crime Intelligence (CI) officers at Katwe Police Station who hit the ground running.
They got the victim whom they promised to help out after he narrated how his cash was grabbed by unknown thugs.
A source close to the inquiries said the police Crime Intelligence officers, without notifying their superiors or opening a case file in line with standard police case handling procedure, the next day tracked the suspects to Gangu, Masajja in Makindye Division.
The officers recovered the unspent cash from the place of abode who they arrested and booked at Katwe Police Station. They then, as required by procedure, turned the case over to their counterparts in the Criminal Investigations Directorate.
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