Only 251 criminals convicted
Director of Police Criminal Investigations Directorate(CID), Major Tom Magambo Rwabudongo has called on the Judiciary harmonise ways of improving on investigations and prosecution of suspects.
Maj Magambo was speaking at the launch of the Annual Police Crime Report 2022, at the police headquarters in Naguru on Wednesday afternoon.
The report detailed progress made investigations and arrest and prosecution of suspects by the judiciary.
According to the report, out of 231,653 cases reported in 2022, 251 persons were convicted. It also shows that 68,405 cases were taken to Court, 57,306 are pending in court, 26,749 cases were not proceeded with, 103,874 were submitted to the DPP while 136,499 cases were still under inquiry.
This was however an improvement compared to 2021 where 65,008 cases were taken to Court, 60,095 cases not proceeded with and 70,978 cases under inquiries. This reflects a great improvement in cases taken to Court by 5.2% .
Magambo said the CID has played a key role in pushing with investigations and forwarding cases to the Directorate of Public Prosecutions (DPP) but there are still gaps in the system.
“We have done our part despite the challenges and pushed a number of cases to the Judiciary, DPP’s office and a number of them have been pushed to court. So our interest is to have a fair conversation because its not necessarily police to blame but there are also gaps some where else in the chain,” he said
The police boss Martins Okoth Ochola says the 231,653 cases are mainly attributed to the full opening of the economy after the Covid-19 lockdown and growing confidence to report crime to Police.
Okoth said that 61,508 were thefts were reported, 32,041 assault, 17,698 Domestic Violence 14,693 Sex-related Offences,13,826 breakings, 13,489 child-related Offences, 13,202 economic and corruption crimes, 10,652 obtaining by false pretences, 10,345, Threatening Violence, 8,960, defilements, 8,418 criminal trespass, 7,838 malicious damage to property, 6,854 robberies, 4,043 homicide, 2,797 narcotics, 1,747 arson (General) ,988 escape from lawful custody, 561 land-related cases, 140 political/ Media offences and 15 terrorism cases.
He explained that out of the total cases of robberies reported to Police, 1,831 cases were taken to Court,
224 were not proceeded with, while 4,799 cases are still under inquiry. Out of the total cases taken to Court, 100 cases secured convictions, 01 case was acquitted, 06 cases were dismissed while, 1,724 cases are still pending in Court.
Out of the total Theft cases reported to Police, 25,290 cases were taken to Court, 3,717
cases were not proceeded with, while 32,501 cases are still under inquiry. 34,551 cases were submitted to
DPP/RSA for perusal and legal guidance. Out of the 25,290 cases taken to Court, 4,503 cases secured
convictions, 11 cases were acquitted, 81 cases were dismissed while 20,695 cases are still pending in Court.
Out of the total cases of other Crimes in General reported to Police in 2022, 14,207 cases were taken to Court, 10,185 were not proceeded with, while 38,977 cases are still under inquiry. Of the total cases taken to Court, 2,276 cases secured convictions, 14 cases were acquitted, 42 cases were dismissed, while 11,875 cases are still pending in Court.
By the end of 2022, out of the total cases of Economic & Corruption Crimes reported to Police, 2,649 cases were taken to Court, 942 cases were not proceeded with, while 9,616 cases are still under inquiry. Out of the total cases taken to Court, 303 cases secured convictions, 03 cases were acquitted, 16 cases were dismissed while 2,327 cases are still pending in Court.
Out of the total cases of Breakings reported to Police, 6,327 cases were taken to Court, 516 were not proceeded with, while 6,983 cases are still under inquiry. Out of the total cases taken to Court, 790 cases secured convictions, 03 cases were acquitted, 05 cases were dismissed while 5,532 cases are still
pending in Court.
557 cases of Rape were taken to Court, out of which 03 cases secured convictions and 554 cases are still pending in Court. A total of 1,439 Female Adults and 184 Female Juveniles were victims of Rape. 625 suspects of Rape were charged in Court, while, 02 were convicted, while 623 are still awaiting trial.
Out of the Defilement cases reported in 2022, 4,725 cases were taken to Court, 817 cases were not proceeded with while 7,041 cases are still under inquiry. Out of the cases taken to Court, 205 cases secured convictions, 01 case was acquitted, 03 cases were dismissed and 4,515 cases are still pending in Court. A total of 4,843 suspects of Defilement were arrested and charged to Court, out of whom, 206 were convicted, 08 were discharged while 4,502 were still awaiting trial.
By the end of 2022, out of 14,693 Sex-related crimes reported to Police 5,461 cases were taken to Court,
942 cases were not proceeded with while 8,290 cases are still under inquiry. Out of the total cases taken to Court, 224 cases secured convictions, 01 case was acquitted, 05 cases were dismissed while 5,233 cases are still pending in Court. Out of 14,795 persons that were victims of Sex-related crimes, 12,816 were Female Juveniles, 33 were Male Juveniles while 1,946 were Female Adults.
