At the rank of Commissioner of Police, Fred Enanga, who is the also the national police mouthpiece, has tipped police officers on the role of public relations in crime detection and investigations.
CP Enanga, lectured the police officers today at the ongoing refresher training of police officers at Kibuli Criminal Investigations Directorate –CID headquarters on publications relations, crime detection, investigations and customer care.
More than 100 police officers are undergoing a two weeks course in Homicide Investigations at CID headquarters in Kibuli. CP Enanga told police officers that Media work is an essential component of communication with the population.
Enanga stressed that the broad range of positive measures taken in the fight against crime should be communicated to the public as professionally as possible. This, according to Enanga, could only be achieved through close cooperation between the police, the media and other stakeholders under the Criminal Justice system.
Police officers regardless of their ranks and positons were reminded that customer care is about accountability and effective service delivery which implies that every police officer has a duty to provide quality services that satisfies the needs of the people we serve.
A number of police officers have been attacking journalists to the extent of clobbering them, confiscating their gadgets and sometimes detaining them without clear offences. Reports by Human Rights Network for Journalists –HRNJ have for years put police on top of journalists’ rights violators.