National Police Service of Kenya
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Kenya Police Service Kenya National Police Service Polisi wa Kenya |
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| Common name | Kenya Police Karau/Polisi |
The Kenya Police patch.
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Flag of the Kenya Police
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| Motto |
Utumishi kwa Wote (English: "Service to All") |
| Agency overview | |
| Formed | 1906 |
| Employees | approx. 35,000 to 42,000 |
| Legal personality | Governmental: Government agency |
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| Map of Kenya Police Service Kenya National Police Service 's jurisdiction. | |
| Size | 581,309 square kilometres (224,445 sq mi) |
| Population | 44,354,000 |
| Legal jurisdiction | Kenya |
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| Headquarters | Vigilance House, Harambee Ave, Nairobi |
| Agency executive | Inspector General, Joseph Boinett |
| Parent agency | Kenya |
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| Counties | Counties of Kenya |
| Facilities | |
| Airbases | Wilson Airport |
| Mil Mi-17, MBB Bo 105 Cessnas | 15 |
| Website | |
| kenyapolice.go.ke | |
The Kenya Police is a national body in charge of law enforcement in Kenya. While organised at a national level, each arm reports to a County police authority, which in turn divides its force by local Police Divisions, headquartered at local police stations. All these element report to a National Kenya Police Headquarters in Nairobi, and several specialist elements, such as the Kenya Police College, are commanded directly from here. An Administration Police service is commanded through a hierarchy separate from that of the National Kenya Police. For other state security bodies see Law enforcement in Kenya.
The current force was established as a British colonial police force in 1907. From the 1887 to 1902 policing was provided by the East Africa Trading Company. After 1902 the Kenya-Uganda Railway introduced their own police units.
In 1906 the Police Ordinance was established to create a new force in 1907 and the current force's name came into effect in 1920. The colonial force was made up mainly of British and Indian recruits as senior officers and Africans amongst lower ranks.
Following Kenya's independence, the British officers were replaced with local Kenyan members.
The current Kenyan police force, consists of three forces which report to the Inspector-General of Police, and is a department of Ministry of Interior and Co-ordination of National Government, one of the two ministries in the Office of the President. As of October 2003 the force fielded about 35,000 officers and is divided into eleven service and one training formations, who work in divisions in each of the eight provinces. Each county is headed by a Provincial Police Officer (PPO); each province is further divided into police divisions headed by an Officer Commanding Police Division (OCPD) normally in the rank of Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP). The police divisions are divided into police stations headed by an Officer Commanding Police Station (OCS). National Kenya Police Headquarters is located at Vigilance House on Harambee Avenue in Nairobi's Central Business District (CBD). The inspector general is responsible for all administrative and personnel matters affecting the force. The Kenya Police is governed by the force standing orders which establishes the formation of various units and their scope of work. Every unit of the Kenya Police Service now undergoes specialized officer corps training from world class experts. Among the international police training associations that have been given this arduous task, the most notable are the World Police Academy in Canada and the Dallas Police Department in USA. The World Police Academy is a premier police training institution that is also a global security and police think tank. It offers democracies in developing economies the opportunity to introduce Canadian policing standards into the senior ranks of their police forces. Getting this academy to undertake this training was achieved by the progressive thinking of current Kenyan police chiefs. The Dallas Police Department has a recognizable brand of policing and their systems are respected in many areas of the USA. Securing the training from such renowned training institutions is a positive approach for the future security of Kenya. With the 2010 Constitution, Kenya police force was rebranded to Kenya National Police Service http://www.nationalpolice.go.ke/. This is a wider part of long-term integration of various police units.
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