Elizabeth Muwanga Alamo
{{Short description|Ugandan first woman police graduate}}
{{Merge|Elizabeth Muwanga
| date = April 2025
}}{{Infobox person
| name = Elizabeth Muwanga Alalo
| image =
| caption =
| birth_name = Elizabeth Muwanga
| nationality = Ugandan
| known_for = First graduate policewoman in Uganda
| occupation = Civil servant, Politician
| years_active = 1980–2019
| employer = Uganda Police Force
| notable_works = Director for Welfare and Planning, Assistant Inspector General of Police
| education = Rubaga Primary School
Trinity College Nabbingo
Makerere University
| alma_mater = Makerere University
| awards = Top 50 Women Movers in Uganda (2011)
| children = Grandmother to twins
}}
Elizabeth Muwanga also referred to as Elizabeth Muwanga Alalo is a civil servant and police officer. She was Uganda's first graduate police woman.{{Cite web |title=Elizabeth Muwanga: Uganda’s first graduate Police woman |url=https://www.newvision.co.ug/news/1008083/elizabeth-muwanga-uganda-eur-graduate-police-woman |access-date=2025-04-14 |website=New Vision}} She joined the police force in 1980 where only 26 people were admitted with her being the only woman admitted.{{Cite web |last=Sseruyigo |first=Aaron |date=2017-07-10 |title=God has been with me, says a retiring Assistant IGP |url=https://www.ugchristiannews.com/god-has-been-with-me-says-a-retiring-assistant-igp/ |access-date=2025-04-14 |website=Breaking news on Christianity in Uganda and World |language=en-US}} She was recognised as one of the highest ranking officers in police force in Uganda{{Cite web |last=AfricaNews |date= March 2018|title=Ugandans celebrate female police officers ahead of Women's Day |url=https://www.africanews.com/2018/03/01/ugandans-celebrate-female-police-officers-ahead-of-international-women-s-day// |access-date=2025-04-14 |website=Africanews |language=en}} and Uganda's top fifty women movers in 2011.{{Cite web |date=2021-01-24 |title=Today's Uganda top fifty women movers |url=https://www.monitor.co.ug/uganda/news/national/today-s-uganda-top-fifty-women-movers-1487802 |access-date=2025-04-14 |website=Monitor |language=en}}
Personal life
Education history
Elizabeth Muwanga attended her primary school at Rubaga Primary School and later joined Trinity College Nabbingo for her secondary education (Uganda Certificate of Education and Uganda Advanced Certificate of Education). Elizabeth later joined Makerere University and did a bachelor degree in political science and sociology.
Career history
She walked to Naguru with her colleagues for induction. However, she was later transferred to Dar es Salaam for further training after two weeks while their passports were being processed.{{Cite web |date=2025-02-20 |title=President accords former IGP Odomel official burial |url=https://www.monitor.co.ug/uganda/news/national/president-accords-former-igp-odomel-official-burial--4934016 |access-date=2025-04-14 |website=Monitor |language=en}} She and fellow trainees were at Tanzania Police Staff College called Chuo Kuu Chaa Poliis in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania for nine months and later returned to Uganda a few months to the general elections where Milton Obote won as president of Uganda in 1980.After finishing her training in Dar es Salaam, she was the Cadet Officer and later served as the Assistant Superintendent of Police. She rose through the rank and was the Assistant Inspector General of Police{{Cite web |last=Kamusiime |first=Wilfred |date=2014-10-07 |title=Promotions of Police officers. |url=https://upf.go.ug/promotions-police-officers/ |access-date=2025-04-14 |website=Uganda Police Force |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |last=Agababyona |first=Bruno |date=2014-10-03 |title=NEW LIST: Thousands of Police Officers Promoted |url=https://chimpreports.com/new-list-thousands-of-police-officers-promoted/ |access-date=2025-04-14 |website=ChimpReports |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |last=Kamusiime |first=Wilfred |date=2015-01-20 |title=POLICE WOMEN IN GENDER SENSITIZATION WORKSHOP |url=https://upf.go.ug/police-women-gender-sensitization-workshop/ |access-date=2025-04-14 |website=Uganda Police Force |language=en-US}} and also heads the welfare section where she ensured the welfare of Uganda Police officers and their families.{{Cite web |title=Uganda Police Reaches Out to Its Children |url=https://www.ugandaradionetwork.net/story/uganda-police-reaches-out-to-its-children?districtId=505 |access-date=2025-04-14 |website=Uganda Radionetwork |language=en}} While serving as the Assistant Inspector General of Police, she commented about sexual harassment rate against female recruits at the police which had increased.{{Cite web |title=AIGP: Female Victims of Sexual Harassment Silent |url=https://ugandaradionetwork.net/story/aigp-female-victims-of-sexual-harassment-silent?districtId=731 |access-date=2025-04-14 |website=Uganda Radionetwork |language=en}} Before assuming the Assistant Inspector General of Police role, she was employed as the Officer in Charge at Station Jinja, Staff Officer at South Eastern region, Quarter Master at Police Stores, Deputy Commissioner of Police, United Nations Mission in Darfur.{{Cite web |date=2021-01-24 |title=Today's Uganda top fifty women movers |url=https://www.monitor.co.ug/uganda/news/national/today-s-uganda-top-fifty-women-movers-1487802 |access-date=2025-04-14 |website=Monitor |language=en}}
On 17 July 2007, she was among the seventy officers from the Uganda Police Force who participated in a one-day informational workshop on the International Criminal Court that took place in Kampala.{{Cite web |title=ICC - Workshop for Uganda's Police Officers {{!}} International Criminal Court |url=https://www.icc-cpi.int/news/icc-workshop-ugandas-police-officers |access-date=2025-04-14 |website=www.icc-cpi.int |language=en}} On the same day while at the workshop held on the occasion of the International Day of Justice, she was the Commissioner of Police in-Charge Non-Human Resource and she gave a closing remarks on behalf of Inspector General of Police encouraging the ICC to organise a similar workshop for their colleagues working in Northern Uganda. However, she is now tired after serving police force for over 37. She quit the Uganda police force in 2019 while serving as the director for welfare and planning when her contract was delayed for renewal.{{Cite web |last=Independent |first=The |date=2020-01-15 |title=Why contracts of six AIGPs are yet to be renewed |url=https://www.independent.co.ug/why-contracts-of-six-aigps-are-yet-to-be-renewed/ |access-date=2025-04-14 |website=The Independent Uganda |language=en-US}}
References
External links
- [https://upf.go.ug/ Website of the Uganda Police Force]
Category:Ugandan civil servants
Category:Makerere University alumni