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Police shortage encourages crime

    NAIROBI
    Uganda's Annual Crime Report released on Saturday revealed that crime in the country has been increasing by an average of 9.5 percent a year during the past eight years, news agencies said. The report said murder cases had risen from 950 in 1991 to 1,877 last year, according to AFP. The report said a shortage of personnel was hampering police crime-fighting efforts "with the workload on individual detectives standing at 24 cases per year."

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