Dr. Resila A. Onyango has become the first female police officer in the history of the National Police Service (NPS) to earn a Doctorate degree.
Dr. Onyango, an Ivy League graduate, is a Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) and currently the Deputy Director of Planning at the Office of the Inspector General of Police.
In an update by NPS, Dr. Resila earned her PhD and MPhil in Criminal Justice from the Graduate Center /John Jay College of Criminal Justice-The City University of New York (CUNY), USA under the CUNY Graduate Center Doctorate Fellowship and Masters of Science degree in Criminology from the University of Pennsylvania, USA, under Ford Foundation International Fellowships Program.
She graduated from Moi University in Kenya with her first degree in Education before joining the National Police Service in the year 2003.
Dr. Resila is an expert in Policing, Peace, Conflict, and Security. A Military Observer trained at the Finnish Defence Forces International Centre in Finland and a trained Sex Crimes Investigator by the International Law Enforcement Academy, Botswana.
She has taught Criminal Justice both at John Jay College of Criminal Justice USA and locally at the USIU-Africa.
She is also invited regularly in her capacity as a Criminal Justice Expert to speak at Drexel University, USA.
Her academic research work has focused more on Comparative Criminology and Criminal Justice, Gender Issues in Policing and Peace Support Operations, Crimes against Children, and Terrorism within East Africa.
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