Following the armed robbery and subsequent death of a 20-year-old Senegalese national (Amat Touray) along the Palma Rima Beach on the 27/03/2022, rigorous investigation efforts by Kotu Police Station detectives uncovered evidence connecting a gang of six young men from Wellingara and Sinchu Baliya area. This followed an earlier report […]
Security
OC of SIS Operations, other intelligence officers redeployed
The State Intelligence Service (SIS) of the Gambia continues to make more redeployments recently, LamToro News has learned. Edward Mendy, the Officer Commanding (OC) SIS Operations has been redeployed to serve as First Secretary at the Gambian Embassy in Sierra Leone. Another senior officer, Alhagie Ceesay of the Analysis Unit […]
Police set to tackle road accidents, launches Operation Road Safety
The Gambia Police Force has on Tuesday, 26th April 2022, launched a new initiative dubbed Operation Road Safety. The objective is to tackle the recent surge in road traffic accidents in the country. The police top command and stakeholders gathered this morning at the office of the Inspector General of […]
FEATURE: How Gambia’s National Security could have been compromised by the SIS. Lessons to be learned!
Since 2019 before the testimony of The Gambia’s Intelligence Chief Ousman Sowe at the just-concluded Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Commission (TRRC), on the 6th and 7th January 2021, doubts have been raised in some corners as to whether the country’s national security has been compromised or not. Such alleged compromise […]