The study was about community policing and crime prevention in Uganda focusing on Greater Kampala Metropolitan Area (2012-2019). Undertaking the study on community policing and crime prevention is important for understanding how the community and police work in tandem to prevent and detect crime.

The study found that criminality in Kampala Metropolitan Area was caused by myriad factors namely: poor family background which has caused behavioral problems among who have grown outside of familiar boundaries; erosion of the social moral fabric which has encouraged permissiveness; the frequent occurrence of criminal behaviour in certain places which motivates criminality; societal tolerance of anti-social behaviour; as well as lapses in the enforcement of the law.