Police clarify on the fate of officers who missed out on their salary

Police have clarified on officers who haven’t received salary for a while.

Kituuma Rusoke the Uganda Police Spokesman said There are isolated cases of salary delays affecting individual officers due to circumstances that vary from individual officer to another. These include:

Mismatch between nominal roll and payroll data: Some officers provide inconsistent information between their unit service records and payroll details, causing payment system rejections.

b. Failure to meet validation requirements: In 2023, the Auditor General conducted a validation exercise for government employees. Some officers failed to meet validation requirements due to missing national identification cards, discrepancies in names or dates of birth, or inability to produce appointment letters. These officers were categorized as partially validated.

c. Bank identity mismatches: Salaries sometimes bounce due to inconsistencies between identity details submitted to banks and those provided to the payroll system.

d. Deletion of deserters from payroll: Officers who desert work are removed from the payroll. Reinstatement after disciplinary processes is gradual.

e. Erroneous retirements: Some officers were mistakenly retired following validation audits due to discrepancies in entry records and age data held by NIRA.

f. Data migration challenges: The transition to the Human Capital Management System involved reorganizing data records, which occasionally led to payment delays caused by incorrect entries.