Interior CS Kithure Kindiki has announced changes in the command of the Nairobi County police deployment.
In a press briefing on Monday, November 14, Kindiki said that the changes were effected immediately in order to deal with the emerging crime trend in Nairobi.
"We have taken measures to deal with the emerging crime trend in Nairobi. In this regard, the leadership and the command of the police has changed the command of the Nairobi city police deployment effective immediately," Kindiki stated.
The CS further said that the National Police Service (NPS) has put in place a multiagency and multidiscipline response to get criminals off the streets.
Kindiki declared that the government was going for the criminals immediately, even as he maintained that they will be taken to where they belong.
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"We have witnessed increasing criminal activity within Nairobi. Those boys who have dared the government and want to tell us that they can take over the city and make it a city of crime, we have heard you and therefore we are coming effective immediately," he added.
His remarks come after the new Inspector General of Police Japhet Koome gave youths illegally owning firearms in Nairobi 30 days to surrender them to the police.
Koome said that any criminal in the city will be dealt with as a criminal, adding that there will be no politics in the police sector.
“Gavana (Sakaja) amesema kuna vijana kadhaa wanatuma ujumbe kwake wakimueleza wako na bunduki na wangependa kupeana kwa polisi. Tumekubaliana kwa huu mkutano wetu leo, hao vijana tumewapatia mwezi mmoja," Koome said.
