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KampalaGuards retained for 5-year framework agreement with East African private banking group

KampalaGuards Ltd has been retained by a Tier 1 East African private banking group on a five-year framework covering manned guarding, alarm monitoring, and armed response across the group's 47-branch Ugandan network. The contract follows a competitive tender adjudicated by the bank's procurement and risk committees and represents the firm's largest single banking-sector engagement to date. KampalaGuards will continue to operate from the bank's network of 47 branches across all four regions of Uganda.

Media enquiries: media@kampalaguards.com — David Mukasa, Managing Director, will not comment on individual client wins beyond the publicly issued statement.

ISO 18788:2015 surveillance audit completed — third successful cycle

SGS Uganda has confirmed KampalaGuards' continued certification under ISO 18788:2015 — Private Security Operations Management — following the September 2025 surveillance audit, the third successful cycle since initial certification in 2019. The standard is the international benchmark for private security operations and covers human-rights compliance, use-of-force discipline, and accountability. KampalaGuards remains one of three Ugandan private security operators certified under ISO 18788.

Catherine Nabirye promoted to Head of Compliance & Legal; joins executive committee

Catherine Nabirye, who joined KampalaGuards in 2017 as senior counsel, has been appointed Head of Compliance & Legal and joins the firm's six-member executive committee. Catherine is an Advocate of the High Court of Uganda, holds the CIPP/E certification, and has led the firm's annual independent compliance audit since 2020. She succeeds an interim arrangement that has been in place since November 2024.

Median armed-response time across Kampala metro confirmed at 9.2 minutes for Q1 2026

KampalaGuards' Q1 2026 operations review, completed by an external auditor on 7 March, confirms a median armed-response time of 9.2 minutes across the firm's nine geofenced zones in Greater Kampala — improved from 9.7 minutes in Q4 2025 and 28 minutes when the firm took over the audit's flagship banking client in late 2024. The improvement follows the addition of two pre-positioned response vehicles in Zone 4 (Industrial Belt) and Zone 7 (Entebbe Corridor) in January 2026.

KampalaGuards reaffirms commitment to above-floor wage practice for officers

Following the Private Security Guards Association of Uganda's annual minimum-wage benchmarking exercise published this week, KampalaGuards has reaffirmed its long-standing commitment to paying officers above the agreed sector floor. From 1 March 2026, the firm's entry-level officer wage will be 22% above the PSGA-published minimum. The firm's NSSF remittance records, available to clients on request, demonstrate full compliance with the Workers' Compensation Act and the Employment Act for every active officer.

Multi-site framework signed with international foundation operating in Northern Uganda

KampalaGuards has been retained by a private international foundation operating in Northern Uganda on a three-year framework covering compound security, fleet protection, and field-mission risk consulting across nine sites in the Acholi and Lango sub-regions. Operations will be coordinated from the firm's Gulu Regional Office under Innocent Okot, Regional Manager. The foundation has consolidated the engagement from three previous vendors.

KampalaGuards welcomes 84 new officers — 28% female — from January 2026 academy intake

Eighty-four new officers have completed the KampalaGuards Academy 168-hour pre-deployment programme and graduated on 28 January 2026 at the firm's Namanve campus. The intake includes 24 women — 28.6% of the cohort — continuing the firm's industry-leading recruitment of female officers. Graduates have been deployed across nine client sites in Kampala and Entebbe in their first week of duty.

Two new armoured Toyota Land Cruiser 200 (B6) added to executive-protection fleet

KampalaGuards has added two new B6-rated armoured Toyota Land Cruiser 200 vehicles to its close-protection fleet, taking the B6 component to four vehicles and the total armoured fleet to six (two B6, four B4). The new vehicles arrived at the firm's Kololo workshop on 4 January and entered service on 11 January after fleet commissioning, driver familiarisation, and TOC integration.

Patrick Ssempala honoured at PSGA annual conference for contribution to officer training

Patrick Ssempala, KampalaGuards' Head of Training and a former senior instructor with the Uganda Police Force, was presented with the Private Security Guards Association of Uganda's annual training-excellence award at the association's December conference. The award recognises his 11-year contribution to the design and delivery of the KampalaGuards Academy curriculum and his external work with the PSGA on industry-wide training standards.

1,200 officers in the field — KampalaGuards crosses operational milestone

KampalaGuards has, for the first time, crossed 1,200 active officers deployed in the field, growing from 980 at the start of 2025. The expansion reflects new framework contracts in the banking, NGO, and corporate-industrial sectors, and the addition of two regional offices' capacity. The firm continues to recruit ahead of demand to maintain its standing 168-hour pre-deployment training requirement and 1:8 officer-to-supervisor ratio.