The Police Crime Intelligence Directorate has has arrested the armed robbers who on Monday gunned down a police officer in Kasanda as the police pursued them.
Deputy Police spokesperson, Polly Namaye said on Wednesday that the arrest of the suspected thugs is a breakthrough by the Crime Intelligence Directorate of the police.
Namaye said that the Crime Intelligence Directorate operatives together with the Flying Squad Unit tracked the suspects leading to the arrest of two.
“we also recovered the gun and a motor vehicle which they have been using in the robberies,” she said.
The police say, they have since established from their analysis interrogations and critical examination of the different scenes that the recovered gun was the same one used in different robberies recently by this racket.
Namaye said that recovered from the gang is an AK 47 riffle which was grabbed from a police officer of Nsangi Division on May , 29 2023 was recovered.
The deputy police spokesperson explained that on the fateful day, as the police officer disembarked from a boda boda near the division headquarters check point at Nsangi, criminals ridding on motorcycles arrived, grabbed the weapon and sped off.
“Since then, the police has registered four mobile money incidents, including attempted murder by shooting of one of the victims who tried to make an alarm.”
In the Monday incident, CPL Joseph Olaya, attached to Kiganda Police Station was shot dead by the robbers.
Oloya was gunned down from Kyakitanga Village, Manyogaseka Subcounty, Kassanda District in pursuit of the armed robbers.
The thugs first robbed items and an unspecified amount of money from a mobile money agent shop/soda depot owned by Bonani Janvier Fils in Kalongo, Mubende District.
‘Upon receiving this information, our officers, led by the Officer in Charge of Kiganda Police Station, immediately initiated pursuit of the suspects with the aim of apprehending them.
During the pursuit, the suspects shot CPL. Oloya who succumbed to injuries as he was being rushed to Mubende hospital,” said Rachael Kawala the Regional Police Spokesperson.
