Gulu- The leadership of Gulu Municipality has accused crime preventers of abetting crime contrary to their stipulated mandate.
Mr Robert Acaye, the district councillor Kabedo-Opong parish, Bardege Division in Gulu Municipality, said the crime preventers have become a security threat in the area and are directly involved in committing crimes wherever they are deployed.
“They have instead engaged in criminal activities, they have turned against the people they are meant to protect. Instead of promoting security, they are instead a source of insecurity,” he observed.
Ms Lucy Olanya, another councillor of Queen’s Parish in Laroo Division, said some of the crime preventers are now working independently without the direct supervision of police.
“Police should streamline the work of crime preventers so that they are brought to order, they have turned out to be police themselves by handling cases among the communities,” she said.
The Aswa Regional Police Commander, Mr Wilson Kwanya, warned that any crime preventer acting contrary to the law of the country will be liable for his action.
Mr Kwanya said such individuals will be tried before the courts of law.
“They were never trained to work in isolation, but to work with police in feeding us with what is on the ground in areas where we might not be at that particular point,” he stressed.
In Acholi sub-region comprising seven districts, there are a total of 9,000 crime preventers.
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