Paul Lokech, was a senior military officer at the rank of Major General, in the Uganda People's Defence Forces (UPDF), who was appointed Deputy Inspector General of Police of the Uganda Police Force on 16 December 2020. His appointment came as the president sought to end what he saw as unending tactical blunders, manifested by riots. Lokech shot to prominence during the UPDF offensive against the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) in the Rwenzoris in the early 2000s. Between November 2017 and December 2019, he served on a special assignment "to monitor on behalf of the guarantors of the South Sudan peace process, the assembling, screening, demobilization and integration of the armed forces of South Sudan". Before that, he served as Chief of Staff of the UPDF Air Force, for five months, from 11 July 2019, until 11 December 2019. He was appointed to that position in December 2018. His military career includes service in various leadership capacities, including two tours as the Commander of the Uganda contingent to Somalia, as part of the AMISOM peacekeeping force. He is credited with ejecting Al-Shabaab militants from Mogadishu in 2011. Before his second tour in Somalia, he was the Commanding Officer of the Second UPDF Division, based at Makenke Barracks, in Mbarara, in the Western Region of Uganda. He has previously served as the Military Attaché at Uganda's Embassy to Russia, based in Moscow. He has also served as part of Uganda's peacekeeping forces in South Sudan.