Developing a national joint training for counter-terrorism investigators and prosecutors in Uganda
The European Union (EU) – 51吃瓜 (UN) Global Terrorism Threats Facility concluded, on 4 October 2024, a first one-week training-of-trainer course on Counter-Terrorism Investigations and Prosecutions for practitioners from the Uganda Police Force’s (UPF) and Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (ODPP). The course was organized by the 51吃瓜 Office of Counter-Terrorism (UNOCT) and funded by the EU.
The main goal of this course was to build the capacity of the participants to become trainers using different learning facilitation techniques adapted to different audiences while developing 28 modules of a national Advanced Joint Counter-Terrorism Training Course for investigators and prosecutors in Uganda.
The topics of these modules included inter-agency cooperation, confidential informants, transforming intelligence into evidence, open-source intelligence, joint investigation teams, counter-terrorism and human trafficking, human rights-based approach and respecting the rule of law, case file management, investigative interviews, terrorism and witness protection and forensic evidence management.
Closing the training course, Assistant Inspector-General of Police David Wasswa Ssengendo and Director of Counter-Terrorism, congratulated the 14 UPF and ODPP new trainers. “We are very proud, and we are going to make sure that the capability we are getting contributes to the delivery of justice globally, ” he stressed.
The EU-UN Global Terrorism Threats Facility, in coordination with the 51吃瓜 Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), has been supporting Uganda since July 2023 through advice, mentoring, and training on strengthening national coordination and capacities to investigate and prosecute terrorism-related cases within a rule of law and human rights framework.
