Ngojea hivyo tu! Tulia and wait for it to happen... Lets wait to see how long that will take. Someone remind me what is the cut off point of getting into Kiganjo?

Our police force really needs someone who can professionalize it we have very many ongoing inquest into murders that from the affected families perspective are easy to solve.

Take the guy who killed his girlfriend the other day in Nyeri by knifing her several times..the family of the girl has been claiming that the suspect has been communicating via FB and text the police dismissed those allegations..this guy is still at large.

When some of us say we shld notify the police when we see suspicious characters who do you call..the police 999 number does not function they dont publicize their Hotlines how will a common mwananchi inform the police in a matter of minutes.... patrols are far and wide I can walk a whole street without finding a police officer.

The other day I gave a story about a colleague of mine who was robbed inside a bank no police was on site to help...they only appeared after the suspect had escaped.

Ngalaka I agree with you to a point.

I didn't like seeing Raila going around saying that the cause was this or that before investigations were over. That is not in his docket. But its silly season, so I wasn't surprised to see him and Mudavadi doing silly things.

However, Iteere is supposed to be a professional.


If this was the first instance, he could be forgiven. But he's forming a habit of concluding investigations on the scene. Remember Mwau's driver.

That is not professionalism. That is lack of it.

He's not being villified by one incidence. But a collection of incidences.

The question people are asking is "is Kenya really safe with the current policing?"

If you are, then Iteere is fine. If you don't feel safe, then he's got to be villified as the leader of the police force.

That is what it means to be professional. I'm sure he's a nice guy, but honestly, there are too many stories this week concerning the force and obviously there's a leadership vacuum.

Luckily for us, one of the leaders will retire March 2013. Iteere might just end up being the Police Commish.

How about that for another 5yrs?

Sorry guys, none of us Kenyans deserve quality policing at all.
Cops ask for good reliable cars – we give them a few vehicles, with no fuel – in some cases OCS has to get back to their pockets for fueling even basic patrols; we throw them into patrols in dangerous high-crime areas/ operations against hardcore crooks yet we deny them a basic bullet-proof vest – guess what some have to pay from their pockets to even maintain their walkie talkies! when injured in the line of duty, they have to meet their own medical bills, if killed in action, too bad we are quick to kick their families out of residential police lines; we train them for policing duties, but give them nanny duties of pushing carts at supermarkets for wenyenchi residing in Karen; they ask for a forensic lab to analyse residues such as those from jana’s blast at Assanands so that they do good professional investigations – but fat cats skim their cash in anglo-fleecing deals; they ask for police reforms so that they can operate with responsibility and accountability, but we let our politicians misuse and manipulate them so that they can disperse a politician’s rival rallies; they try to earn a decent living on their pay packets, but some smart alec somewhere deducts union dues from their measly pay slips even as we all know they have no labour union.
You know what? We deserve poor quality of policing! Because we have not invested in good quality policing. We are merely harvesting what we invested. The Police Commish job is a poisoned chalice in Kenya! No wonder it takes a hard Israeli-trained commando like Bw. Itere to stomach all this SH*T! Me and you wouldn’t survive a day!
If there's anything we learnt from Lumumba's stint at KACC (and which we discussed exhaustively here), merely putting a good guy at the top with no structural changes across a diseased institution is just aint the done thing.
I say Itere must not go-yet.

I repeat again. I need help. I really do. If only for those of us who do not know what exactly to do.

Exactly how do I go about reporting a terrorist crime in the making, about to happen and after it has happened?

The basics Citizens. The basics. What the man, woman or child on the street or in the village, in your opinion, should do.

Then we can escalate the situation from there.