APs snatch colleague from police station

Regular and Administration Police officers cocked their guns, ready for battle when the APs went to rescue their colleague from a cell at a Nairobi police station.

The APs sped from Kileleshwa Police Station having rescued their colleague.

The 15 APs, armed with G3 rifles, stormed the station, catching their counterparts off-guard at 7.40 pm on Sunday.

The freed AP sergeant had been booked at the station the previous day on charges of helping two suspects to escape from custody.

The incident has rekindled bitter relations between officers from the two police units who in the past have engaged in armed confrontations.

The APs drove to the station in three cars.

Two of the vehicles - a saloon car with a GK registration number and another with private registration — were parked outside the gate.

A van with private registration numbers was parked at the station’s entrance.

The APs walked to the report desk and requested to see the sergeant but when he came out of the cell they cocked their guns and took him away. The sergeant had been arrested at the Co-op Bank House in the city centre on Saturday.

The saga started on Friday on Moi Avenue where the sergeant and a colleague arrested suspects who were withdrawing money from a Barclays Bank ATM using stolen credit cards.

They took the suspects to Kibera District Officer’s camp instead of the nearby Central Police Station and later released them.