Background of Uganda Police Training School Kabalye

Police Training School Kabalye Masindi is a newly established Police training facility which opened for Police training courses in 2005. Two decades prior to that, the school was operating in a military barracks due to lack of adequate training space to address the training demands of the 1986 post liberation era. Due to the noble need, the government decided that the two institutions share one facility as plans were underway to build an independent Police Training School.

In 1996, the district Local Authority of Masindi offered 2 sq. miles of land located at Kabalye in Masindi to the Uganda Police Force on good will. The Police due to other pressing needs didn’t take over the new land until 2005 when the school begun conducting short courses on the land as it prepared for the eventual vacation of the military barracks.

In 2007, the school shifted all its training activities to the new site hence the change of the name to PTS Kabalye-Masindi from PTS Masindi. The school has built capacity to train a maximum of over 6,000 trainees without straining both the directing staff and instructors (teaching staff).

This is largely attributed to a committed team of trainers devoted to producing a nationalistic, patriotic, disciplined, competent and productive pro-people Police Force that is ready to overcome the challenges of the present times.

Geographical Data
PTS Kabalye is located in the North Western part of Masindi town, approximately 8Km off Hoima road at Kijura Township. The school is in Kabalye, Kihuba Parish, Karujubu Sub-county.

It’s bordered by Kihuba trading center to the east, Kabalye settlement primary school to the south and Budongo forest to the extreme west.

The school is on two square miles of land demarcated by two seasonal streams to the north and the south that flow to the west.

Masindi District is bordered by Amuru District to the north, Oyam District to the northeast, Apac District to the east, Nakasongola District and Nakaseke District to the southeast, Kiboga District to the south, Hoima District to the southwest and Bulisa District to the northwest.

The coordinates of the district are: 01 41N, 31 44E, Masindi, the ‘chief town’ of the district is located approximately 214 kilometers (133 mi), by road, west of Uganda’s capital Kampala.

Thus making it 222km by road from Kampala city to PTS Kabalye – Masindi