Early today the Deputy Director, DCI Mr. Joseph Ashimala presided over the official opening of the Basic Crime Investigation Course at the DCI Academy, aimed at sharpening the officers' investigative skills while employing proactive & professional approaches in handling crime.
The training which brings together a team of 50 officers drawn from the Directorate's units devolved countrywide is scheduled for 8 weeks, and is further programmed to enhance teamwork and exchange of experiences among the participants.
Making his remarks, Mr. Ashimala reminded the course participants that rising above the challenges law enforcement officers operate under must be actualized against all odds.
"Some die-hard criminals run to courts with personal bonds to stand in the way of justice.>>>
>>>The wisdom to handle such and many other cases can only come from God. Do not downplay the role of God, our Higher Power," he said.
Mr. Ashimala was received by among other senior officers, the commandant NPS DCI Academy Mr. Paul Ndambuki.
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The Director DCI has sanctioned far reaching reforms in the Land Fraud Investigations Unit. In part of the changes made made yesterday, a total of 26 detectives with professional background in land survey, land economics, land physical planning and administration among other
relevant fields have been deployed in the unit. This move is meant to inject new blood and professionalize the unit, to undertake investigations of land cases that are complex in nature. The detectives who were carefully selected & vetted, posses the requisite skills relevant to
the investigation of frauds related to land. They will enhance the unit’s capacity to investigate land cases expeditiously & advise on the appropriate legal action to be taken. These reforms have been made ahead of the roll out of the new lands digital migration program,
This morning some minutes past midnight, our officers rescued four boys aged between 14-15 years and two young adults of 18 & 19 years, from the yoke of sodomy.
In a horror-like scene visited by Maara sub-County Criminal Investigations head & his Kenya Police counterparts, the boys were found sleeping on the floor in the perpetrator’s house in within Chogoria Township.
Shockingly, the perpetrator of this beastly crime is a Chief Inspector of Police, in-charge of a Police Post within Chogoria, who is supposed to safeguard the rights of such victims as a law enforcement officer.
Detectives attached to the Serious Crimes Unit have this morning arrested a suspect following a spate of disappearances of young college girls from their homes.
The 21-year-old Rashid Barasa Omari preys, pounces and later coerces his victims who he fishes from the comments section appearing on Tour and Travel advertisements.
Omari presents himself as a person capable of sponsoring his victims to the advertised destinations.
Instead, he lures them to lodgings in Nairobi after sending them bus fare, then robs them off their valuables before disappearing to his hideout.
Upon arrest, the suspect led detectives to his house where valuables including laptops, mobile phones and handbags belonging to...
Detectives deterring an armed robbery today recovered a Beretta pistol after a shootout with a three-man gang that left one of the gang members fatally injured.
Several sim cards and three ID cards belonging to different people formed part of the recoveries made from the gunned down suspect.
Acting on a tip-off from members of the public, DCI detectives based at Thika West and the Special Service Unit (SSU) intercepted the gang...
...between Thika's Makongeni-Kiganjo estate and Engen.
The three were reportedly targeting a factory within the area.
On being challenged to surrender, two of the suspects drew pistols and started shooting indiscriminately.
Goods valued at millions of shillings and a Lorry belonging to a local manufacturing company that had been stolen while on transit along Mombasa Highway have been recovered.
The vehicle's driver made a report that he had stopped along the way at Makindu to answer to a call of nature when robbers ambushed him and drove away with the lorry.
However, he gave a contradicting statement to his employer, claiming that he had been attacked by robbers...
...wielding crude weapons who carjacked him along with the goods at Makindu and dropped him at Maungu area in Taita Taveta County before driving away.