State to hire 10,000 retired police for community policing
Interior Cabinet Secretary Joseph ole Lenku addresses journalists at Harambee House in the past. He has warned all chiefs and elected leaders that they would be prosecuted if they fuelled violence in Mandera and Wajir counties. FILE PHOTO |
Ten thousand retired police officers are to be brought back to service to help fight crime through the community policing programme.
Interior Cabinet Secretary Joseph Ole Lenku said their services would be required to fight crime at the county level.
“They are a pool that possess immense knowledge from the local and international training they have received over the years and will help to provide interface at community and county levels,” he said.
The retired police officers have formed a national organization that they plan to use to engage the government.
Officials of the organization visited Mr Lenku at the ministry’s Harambee House headquarters in Nairobi on Tuesday.
A national task force to steer community policing, popularly referred to as Nyumba Kumi, is at present visiting various parts of the country, collecting views and conducting trainings, with the aim of coming up with a common guide for the initiative.
