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Brigadier general William Frederick Savery Edwards CB CMG DSO (1872–1941), commonly referred to as Brigadier-General W. F. S. Edwards, was a decorated British military officer who was appointed by the British Colonial Administration as the first Inspector General of the Uganda Protectorate Police, which later became the Uganda Police, and the simultaneous overall commander of the then British East Africa Police. When the Uganda Protectorate Police officially became the Uganda police, he was the first duly appointed Inspector General of the same.