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Police Women Cite Sexual Abuse.

New Vision (Uganda)

| April 12, 2009 | COPYRIGHT 2008 AllAfrica Global Media. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Byline: Eddie Ssejjoba

WOMEN Police officers have complained that they are sexually harassed by their male bosses in order to be deployed or promoted.

Some of the women officers said they had been denied promotions for rejecting sexual advances from their superiors, with some stuck at the same rank for over 27 years.

The officers disclosed their plight during a meeting with the Inspector General of Police, Maj. Gen. Kale Kayihura, at the Kibuli Police Training School playground on Friday.

The women officers were from the Kampala metropolitan area that covers Kampala, Wakiso and Mpigi districts.

Some of the female officers sobbed as their colleagues narrated the ordeal they had gone through …

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