{"id":31487,"date":"2016-12-31T08:47:18","date_gmt":"2016-12-31T08:47:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/uganda-police-officer-shoots-self\/"},"modified":"2016-12-31T09:51:45","modified_gmt":"2016-12-31T09:51:45","slug":"uganda-police-officer-shoots-self","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/uganda-police-officer-shoots-self\/","title":{"rendered":"Uganda:Police officer shoots self"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{Mr Patrick Jimmy Okema, the Aswa River region police spokesperson, said police have recorded statements from family members to piece circumstances that could have led to Oloya&#8217;s death.}<\/p>\n<p>Police in Pader District are investigating circumstances under which a constable shot himself dead.<\/p>\n<p>Patrick Oloya, a Field Force Unit (FFU) personnel attached to Pader Central Police station ended his life after locking himself inside his uni-port house at the Police barracks.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Patrick Jimmy Okema, the Aswa River region police spokesperson, said police have recorded statements from family members to piece circumstances that could have led to Oloya&#8217;s death.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Okema, who described the incident as suicide, said investigation is yet to establish the motive of the shooting.<\/p>\n<p>He urged all police officers to seek psycho-social support, counselling and rehabilitation, to find solutions to either personal or official challenges they are facing.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Romeo Onek, the Pader District Police Commander, when contacted for details on the recent behaviour of the deceased officer, declined to comment saying it is a matter under investigation. <\/p>\n<p>The body has been handed over to the relatives of the deceased for burial preparations. The officer is said to have died due to over bleeding from a single gunshot wound.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{Mr Patrick Jimmy Okema, the Aswa River region police spokesperson, said police have recorded statements from family members to piece circumstances that could have led to Oloya&#8217;s death.} Police in Pader District are investigating circumstances under which a constable shot himself dead. Patrick Oloya, a Field Force Unit (FFU) personnel attached to Pader Central Police [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[99],"byline":[2481],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-31487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-greatlakesnews","byline-daily-monitor"],"bylines":[{"id":2481,"name":"DAILY MONITOR","slug":"daily-monitor","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":null}],"contributors":[{"id":2481,"name":"DAILY MONITOR","slug":"daily-monitor","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":null}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31487\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31487"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=31487"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=31487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}