The police management is to relocate all officers residing in the barracks in Kampala Metropolitan Police Area, like Nsambya barracks in photo, within two months to pave way for demolition.

The police management is to relocate all officers residing in the barracks in Kampala Metropolitan Police Area within two months to pave way for demolition.
Police leadership said it will temporarily relocate the over 10,000 officers and their families to temporary structures to be erected at Namanve Industrial Park and parts of Mukono Municipality.
Developers are expected to build modern apartments for civilians and recreational facilities in partnership with government under private-public partnership arrangements where the government will provide land.
The police say bidding will take place on November 28. The first officers to go will be those in the Nsambya and Naguru police barracks.

Bidding process
“Towards the end of this month, bids for the Public Private Partnership (PPP) project (of Naguru and Nsambya barracks) will be opened and contract awards made to successful companies to begin developing existing land within Kampala Metropolitan Area,” said Deputy Inspector General of Police Martin Okoth-Ochola.
Mr Okoth-Ochola said they have negotiated with some institutions, such as town councils and ministries, that own land outside Kampala to provide them plots on which they are to construct structures to resettle the relocated officers.
The execution
“I therefore ask the Assistant Inspector General of Police in charge of Administration to fast-track the relocation exercise of police personnel and their families to enable implementation of the project,” Mr Okoth-Ochola said.
In the PPP project, the investors will develop Naguru land, which is 58.9 hectares and Nsambya Barracks. Although in exchange, the investors will construct housing units for the police in other areas, government is yet to find this alternative land to relocate the officers.
Already senior police officers above the rank of Assistant Superintendent of Police have been ordered to leave the barracks. Those to be relocated by end of month are junior officers.
The barracks to be affected are Naguru, Nsambya, Wandegeya, Katwe, Kabalagala, Old Kampala, Kawempe, Jinja Road and Nateete.
Mr Jim Mugunga, PPP Project Manager and also Privatisation Unit spokesperson, in an interview yesterday said 20 companies in four consortiums have shown interest and the bidding will be an open international tender.
It is not clear whether the police schools and health centres in which the officers have been enjoying free services in the yet to be demolished barracks will be relocated to the new locations.
Allaying fear
“No facility will be lost. The developers will construct such facilities elsewhere,” Mr Mugunga said.
He said expressions of interest were issued and next week, November 23, there will be a bidding conference at Serena Hotel.
The deal will be Uganda’s first Public Private Partnership housing project. The police project will, however, provide a test for the country that lacks legal framework for a Public-Private partnership, a reason that made government drop the idea in the Naguru-Nakawa housing project.
Police say the project will be executed using the Public Procurement and Disposal of Public Assets Act.
The winning companies will also design, construct and manage commercial properties to be built on this land.
The Uganda Police have a shortage of over 30,000 housing units and most of their officers are now residing in tents near road junctions.