Police has arrested three people who are suspected to have been running parody accounts in the names of the Uganda Police and some senior officers in the force.

The three who are being held at the Criminal Intelligence and Investigations Division (CIID) allegedly opened up accounts in the names of Police Spokesperson Fred Enanga and his deputy Polly Namaye which they have been using to peddle fake information and ridicule the force.

“Our indomitable Electronic team has arrested three punks who have been operating fake Police Twitter and Facebook accounts, posting all sorts of nonsense to ridicule our hard-earned image,” CIID spokesperson Charles Twine said on Wednesday.

Twine revealed that the trio whose identities are still concealed were found in possession of the same gadgets that they had been using to operate the accounts.

Twitter allows users to open parody accounts of any person or institution as long as they declare in the bio that it’s a fake account so as not to mislead people.

The Tower Post is not yet privy to the charges preferred against the tweeps as they were still being interrogated by publication time.