10,000 retired officers called back to service
Interior Cabinet Secretary Joseph ole Lenku (right) with Interior Principal Secretary Mutea Iringo when the National Association of Retired Police Officers paid a courtesy call at Harambee House on August 12, 2014. PHOTO | JENNIFER MUIRURI
What you need to know:
- The officers have formed a national organisation which they plan to use to relate with the government.
- Officials of the organisation visited Mr Lenku at the ministry’s headquarters at Harambee House in Nairobi on Tuesday.
Ten thousand police officers have been recalled from retirement to help fight crime through the community policing.
Interior Cabinet Secretary Joseph ole Lenku said their services would be required in the counties.
“They are a pool that possess immense knowledge from the local and international training they have received over the years and will help to provide interface at community and in the counties,” he said.
The officers have formed a national organisation which they plan to use to relate with the government.
Officials of the organisation visited Mr Lenku at the ministry’s headquarters at Harambee House in Nairobi on Tuesday.
NYUMBA KUMI
A national taskforce to steer community policing, popularly referred to as Nyumba Kumi, is at present moving round the country, collecting views and conducting trainings, to come up with a common guide.
Mr Simiyu Werunga, a member of the taskforce, said the retired police officers would be involved as individuals and not as an organisation.
He revealed that the committees would “strictly be chaired by a civilian”. The Nation has learnt that Nyumba Kumi will now be known as Usalama wa Msingi.
“We shall engage with them not as the organisation or group, but as individuals subject to winning the confidence of the public right from the village to the counties,” Mr Werunga said.
