Chief of Defence Forces (CDF) Gen Muhoozi Kainerugaba has promoted the Director of the Criminal Investigations Directorate (CID), Tom Rwabudongo Magambo, to the rank of acting lieutenant colonel.
Announcing the promotion, UPDF Acting Director of Defence Public Information Col Chris Magezi said the military fraternity had congratulated Magambo on his elevation.
“The UPDF fraternity congratulates Lieutenant Colonel Magambo for the well-deserved promotion and wishes him continued success in his duties,” Magezi said in a statement.
Magambo, who serves as an Assistant Inspector General of Police (AIGP), heads the CID, a key directorate responsible for investigating serious and complex crimes, gathering criminal intelligence and coordinating investigations across the country.
His promotion comes nearly five years after President Yoweri Museveni appointed him to head the police investigations directorate in January 2022, replacing veteran detective Grace Akullo.
At the time of his appointment, Magambo was serving in the Internal Security Organisation (ISO), where he had spent nearly two decades rising through the ranks to become a Chief Intelligence Officer and Director of Analysis.
His appointment was significant because he came from outside the police force to head CID. Museveni also promoted him from the rank of Private to Major in the UPDF before he was subsequently elevated to Assistant Inspector General of Police in April 2022.
Born in 1978, Magambo hails from Masindi District in the Bunyoro sub-region. He attended Masindi Public School before proceeding to Duhaga Secondary School in Hoima. He later joined Makerere University, where he studied Development Studies.
During his intelligence career, Magambo served in several key positions at ISO, including Director of Analysis, Head of Regional Affairs and Head of Counterintelligence and Policy Analysis.
He also coordinated the Eastern Africa Fusion and Liaison Unit (EA-FLU), a regional intelligence centre established in Entebbe in 2018 to strengthen cooperation among East African countries in combating terrorism and other transnational security threats.
Magambo has also undertaken specialised intelligence and security training in the United States, Israel, the United Kingdom and Canada.
Since taking over CID, he has overseen efforts to strengthen criminal investigations, improve the directorate’s operational capacity and modernise investigative methods.
His latest promotion adds another military rank to his career, which has seen him move from a junior army rank to senior positions in both military intelligence and police leadership.
