{{Uganda is hosting a meeting of Directors of Criminal investigations and Interpol from both Eastern and Southern Africa to examine the possibility of setting up a continental police organisation to help curb crime in the continent.}}
Uganda Police Director of Interpol and International Relations, Asan Kasingye, said the idea of forming African Police (Afripol) is on the agenda of the meeting that will also discuss strategies of reducing cross-border crimes in both sub regions.
“The formation of Afripol is an idea that we want to moot, and the questions will be that do we need it or we don’t?” Kasingye told media in Kampala yesterday.
At the meeting, Rwanda is represented by Christopher Bizimungu, the commissioner of the Criminal Investigations Department, and Director of Interpol Ismail Baguma.
If formed, Afripol will act on the model of Europol, which is the European Union’s law enforcement agency whose main goal is to help achieve a safer Europe for the benefit of all EU citizens.
“Crimes in Africa are similar. So, with Afripol it will, for example, be easy to deal with the issue of human trafficking where victims are sometimes traded within the continent,” Kasinge said.
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