On Wednesday, August 26, the Deputy Inspector General of the National Police Service, Eliud Lagat, convened a meeting with Nairobi County Police Commanders.
DIG Lagat explained that the meeting was to review strategies in the fighting crime in Nairobi and its environs.
He added that they also discussed how to deal with the issue of goons and criminal gangs, which are in operation in the capital city.
"This is an in-house programme where the DIG wants to engage the local command, especially on matters of security of Nairobi. We must have a Nairobi that is peaceful, orderly, free from crime and any other adverse criminal activities.
"Of very importance is the issue of criminal gangs in Nairobi and other parts of the country. We want to make sure that Nairobi is safe. It is generally safe at the moment because there are a lot of interventions we have made," the DIG reiterated.
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Lagat intimated that the discussions also addressed the welfare of law enforcement officers, including their mental health.
He added that the police bosses were prepared on how to receive the new graduate police officers and integrate them into the police service.
"We are preparing ourselves to receive the 10,000 officers who are going to graduate at the end of this week. This is part of the arrangement of how to receive and integrate them into the Nairobi Command and the rest of the country," he stated.
Earlier, former Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua accused Lagat of running an illegal police station with a police command that harassed gas traders across the country.
Gachagua claimed that the the police station situated in Hurlingam, Nairobi, had an armoury and its own command, which reported to the DIG.
He alleged that the officers attached to the station conducted a state-sanctioned crackdown on small-scale LPG traders and confiscated more than 200,000 cylinders from traders, without keeping an inventory.
