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Kenya: Matiang'i Bans Romance Among Police Officers
Nairobi News, 1 May 2021
It will soon be a crime for a police officer in Kenya to fall in love with a colleague. Read more »
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Kenya: Police Officer Publicly Assaults Colleague in Nairobi
Nairobi News, 2 May 2021
A police officer attached to the Directorate of Criminal investigations (DCI) in Karen was on Saturday arrested for allegedly assaulting a uniformed colleague. Read more »
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Kenya: Police Officers Will No Longer Be Allowed to Marry Each Other - Matiang'i
Nation, 30 April 2021
Police officers will soon be barred from having affairs or romantic relationships with each other, Cabinet Secretary for Interior Fred Matiang'i has said. Read more »
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Kenya: Officer Who Shot Wife Dead, Committed Suicide, Buried
Nation, 16 April 2021
A sombre mood engulfed Kironge village in Mwatate, Taita Taveta county as Hudson Wakise, a police officer who shot dead his wife and turned the gun on himself last week, was laid… Read more »
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Kenya: IG Urges Police Officers to Seek Psycho-Social Support After Increased Killings and Suicide
Capital FM, 12 April 2021
Amidst a worrying wave of killings among police officers, pressure is piling on Inspector General of Police Hillary Mutyambai to find a lasting solution. Read more »
Kenya Moves to Ban Romance Among Police Officers
Police officers will soon be barred from having affairs or romantic relationships with each other, Interior Cabinet Secretary Fred Matiang'i has said. The new regulations are expected to be introduced in July 2021, as a move to address rising cases of sexual harassment and gender-based violence within the police service Matiang'i said. This also comes after a bodyguard working for Matiang'i, shot and killed his wife, Pauline Wakasa, a traffic officer, before turning the gun on himself.
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The Committee to Protect Journalists is calling on the police to stop harassing the Royal Media Services company and its Citizen TV broadcaster, to refrain from summoning ... Read more »
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The government has reportedly listed provision of shelters and safe houses for survivors of sexual and gender-based violence as an essential service, a major milestone in the ... Read more »
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The police are in the spotlight for enforcing a controversial security law to clamp down on political dissent, which is likely to escalate with the release of a report on ... Read more »
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Two human rights lobby groups representing five victims of alleged police brutality, are suing the government for use of excessive force resulting in one death, perpetrated by ... Read more »
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There has been a steady rise in killings and disappearances linked to the police over the past decade, with 2019 the most deadly year so far, with 144 alleged cases. Men are ... Read more »
