Team on police reforms launched
Internal Security minister Prof George Saitoti. He presided over the official launch of the Police Reforms Implementation Committee on January 12, 2010. Photo/FILE
The long road to police reforms kicked off Tuesday with the launch of a 15-member team to spearhead the process.
The committee is expected to the coordinate implementation of 200 recommendations seen as the remedy to decade-old ills that hinder service delivery by the Kenya police.
Internal Security minister George Saitoti said: “The envisaged police reforms must deliver to Kenyans services that are professional, efficient, accountable and trusted by the people.”
He was speaking during the official launch of the Police Reforms Implementation Committee at the ministry’s headquarters on Tuesday.
The team, which was gazetted by President Kibaki last week and has a one-year mandate, is headed by Kenya Airways managing director Titus Naikuni.
A taskforce appointed to look into the Kenya Police and suggest ways of turning it around finished its work in October, following five months of gathering and analysing views from the public and security experts.
The taskforce, which was headed by retired Judge Philip Ransley, gave the 200 recommendations that Mr Naikuni’s team has been tasked to oversee implementation.
