Some 900 Kampala women call the Uganda Police emergency lines every night begging the officers for sex.

The Ugandan newspaper, the Daily Monitor reports that reporters were shocked at the usually drab police weekly press conference when Kampala Extra Police Spokesman Simeo Nsubuga said the information room was flooded with unwanted calls from lonely women.

"We warn desperate women who call our officers at night using police patrol lines asking them to make love. They call the toll free line everyday saying they are feeling so cold in bed and need some assistance from police," Mr Nsubuga told the bemused journalists.

"These women also go further to direct our officers to their places of residence so that they can reach them. They mainly start calling from midnight up to morning talking nonsense."

He singled out female callers as the most notorious abusers of the facility. Interestingly, Mr Nsubuga said some of the women claim it's the newspapers, radio stations and their pastors that convince them that men are available at the other end of the 999 emergency dial.

"We are warning them to stop congesting our Patrol lines because they deny access to people with serious emergencies," he said. Mr Nsubuga warned that the public risked a "no response" from the police in times of real need.

"Some drunkards just call us asking to be escorted back home after dancing and drinking. This is too much for us. We shall follow up on every caller and arrest those who don't have genuine reasons for calling," Mr Nsubuga said.

"They also call us when they want to talk to the Kadongo kamu artiste the late Paul Job Kafeero because their pastors told them if they use 999 very late in the night they might be able to talk to their beloved deceased," he said.