Seventeen years. 1,200 personnel. One discipline.
KampalaGuards was founded in October 2009 by David Mukasa, then Head of Group Security at a Tier 1 Ugandan commercial bank, with three senior colleagues drawn from corporate security and the Uganda Police Force. They had spent the previous five years on the buying side of private security — frustrated by an industry that was growing fast in the wake of the post-2008 banking expansion, but where the standard of officer training, supervision, and reporting had not kept up with what regulated institutions actually needed.
The first contract was 24 officers on a single office complex in Nakasero, signed on a handshake with a banking client who had followed David from his prior firm. By the end of 2010 the officer count had grown past 80; by 2014 we opened the KampalaGuards Academy in Namanve to bring training in-house; by 2017 we commissioned the Tactical Operations Centre on Acacia Avenue that still anchors every contract we run today.
Seventeen years on, KampalaGuards is one of East Africa’s most respected private security firms — 1,247 trained personnel in the field, 340+ active sites under contract, regional offices in Mbarara, Gulu, Mbale, and Entebbe, and a 24/7 control room in Kololo that watches over private banks, NGOs, hotels, and households across the country.
We have stayed close to our founding conviction: that great security is built on three things, and only three things. Discipline in how we recruit, train, and supervise our officers. Technology that holds us accountable to our clients in real time, every day. And trust — earned through the unglamorous work of being on time, on uniform, and on duty, year after year, on the sites we have walked since the beginning.
To set the highest standard in Uganda’s private security industry, and to hold ourselves to it every shift.
Be the chosen security partner for every serious private institution and household in East Africa.
Discipline · Integrity · Vigilance · Accountability — printed on every operations brief, lived on every site.
Figures verified at our most recent independent operational audit, March 2026. Updated quarterly.
First contract signed — 24 officers on a single office complex in Nakasero. PSO/2009/0418 issued in October.
Officer count crosses 100. Sarah Nakato joins as Regional Manager, becomes our first non-founder executive.
Twelve-acre site purchased, first classroom block commissioned. Patrick Ssempala (UPF, ret.) joins as Head of Training.
Plot 14, Acacia Avenue, Kololo becomes the firm's permanent home — purpose-built for an in-house Tactical Operations Centre.
14-monitor TOC goes live with redundant power and three internet uplinks. Genetec Security Center deployed as primary VMS.
Among the first three Ugandan operators certified under the ISO standard for private security operations management.
v1 of the in-house client app released in May 2020. Currently on v4.2 (March 2026) with 8,400+ active client users.
Officer count crosses 1,200 in November. Two new B6 armoured Land Cruisers added to executive-protection fleet.
Stage-1 audit completed February 2026. Target Q4 2026 for certification of the platform and Tactical Operations Centre.
The city we protect is the city we live in. Our community work follows the same operating rule as the rest of the firm: be specific, measure it, and tell the truth about what worked. The programmes below are the ones we have invested in for at least three years.
We have funded school fees, scholastic materials, and quarterly mentorship visits at the Naguru Children's Home for twelve years. In 2025 we supported 62 children at primary and secondary level. Eight of our 2014 cohort have completed tertiary education; three have joined our Academy as recruits.
Working with the Uganda Police Force Traffic Department, our off-duty officers volunteer on the school-run perimeter at 11 schools across Kololo, Bukoto, Muyenga, and Naguru — managing crossings, slowing traffic, and bringing the same uniform discipline our clients see to the parents at the gate.
Every quarter, KampalaGuards officers clean up a marked stretch of Kampala — Kololo, Bugolobi, Old Kampala, and the Nakivubo channel head. Numbers are weighed at NEMA's Kampala office and published in our annual review. 3.4 tonnes in 2025 across four events.
We sponsor 24 fully-paid places per year at the KampalaGuards Academy for women from low-income districts of Greater Kampala. 100% of graduates are offered employment. The programme has supplied 132 women officers to the firm since 2020 and contributes to our 22% female-officer ratio.
Our annual community-investment budget is fixed at 1% of after-tax profit, ratified each March by the board. We publish a one-page community-impact summary in our annual review — available on request from compliance@kampalaguards.com.
Visit our HQ on Acacia Avenue, Kololo. Walk-throughs of our control room and training academy are by appointment, Monday to Friday.