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Maintain law and order, Presid
President Mwai Kibaki has urged Kenyans to conduct themselves lawfully and avoid incidents that can provoke insecurity.
Noting that this is an election year, President Kibaki called on the police to deal firmly with those who incite ethnic animosity or use public meetings to cause a breach of peace.
“The police are expected to enforce law and order at all times as this is the only way to guarantee free, fair and peaceful elections,” President Kibaki said.
The President, at the same time, condemned ethnicity in its entirety saying as a multi-ethnic society, K... Read more
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Integrity just as vital as enf
BY REMINDING officers in charge of police stations (OCS) to treat the preparation of sudden death reports (SDR) as urgent and a matter that should be given priority over other duties, the nation's number one policeman is hoping to resolve a much complained about issue which had, over the years, contributed to the tarnishing of the image of the force.
He should be commended for addressing the matter pointedly as maintaining the integrity of the men in blue is just as important as enforcing the law.
Delays in the preparation of the report were becoming more frequent and had caused a lot of misery to the families of those who died in police custody. Only with the SDR could inquests be held and the bodies released to the families.
It is understandable why Inspector-General of Police Tan Sri Mohd Bakri Omar had to speak up publicly on the issue.
Firstly, a lot of questions had been publicly raised over cases of death in police custody and he had, therefore, to give the assurance of priority and transparency on the matter in the interests of improving the image of the police force.
And secondly, he had to wake up the OCS from the complacency into which they had sunk after years of being left to their own devices.
Thirdly, more prominent people were commenting on the subject. For instance, Chief Judge of Malaya Tan Sri Siti Norma Yaakob had on Saturday said that she was puzzled why deputy public prosecutors and magistrates decided no inquests were necessary for 22 deaths in police custody between 2000 and 2004 when the law said it was mandatory in such cases.
The IGP said he would no longer tolerate delays and would accept no excuses for them. "Do not deceive us ... we can arrest you," were the sobering words he used when he addressed 194 OCS from all over the country at the Seminar for OCS Towards Integrity and Excellent Services on Monday.
Like when he told the nation's OCPDs two months ago to "shape up or ship out", he told the OCS that theirs was a full time job and if they were involved in part-time businesses like selling batik or operating petrol stations, they should leave and allow others to take over their posts.
It is very clear that he knows much of what is going on in the force and the Herculean effort required to clean it.
Maybe the proposal for the setting up of the powerful Independent Police Complaints and Misconduct Commission (IPCMC) should sound appealing now.
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