Uganda, Dec. 4 -- The Public Service ministry has blocked the November salaries of over 170 police legal officers on account of the government erroneously paying them more money.

The government holds that legal officers were being paid wages as professionals yet they were recruited as arts graduates, who earn less. Consequently, the legal officers at the rank of Assistant Superintendent of Police, who have been earning Shs5.6m and above per month, are now going to get Shs700,000 like any other arts graduate in the Force.

A senior police source, who attended several meetings where the issue was discussed, told the Monitor that officials from the Public Service ministry insist that the professional salaries for police lawyers was "given i...