Updated 8 hr(s) 43 min(s) ago
By John Oywa
The police force is grappling with serious financial and logistical constraints that have forced it to ration fuel for its fleet even as the country faces serious insecurity challenges.
In a surprise but bold admission, Police Commissioner Mathew Iteere said police vehicles have been restricted to a maximum of eight litres per day, a situation that has compromised the fight against crime.
Iteere confirmed that police officers in some stations were asking for help from other Government departments and the public to reach scenes of crime.
Speaking in Mombasa during a high-level security meeting on organised crime and violence on Wednesday, Iteere said few police stations have serviceable vehicles.
"It is sad when a member of the public walks to a police station to report a crime and he or she is told there is no transport to reach the scene of crime," Iteere said.
All the eight provincial commissioners and members of the civil society attended.
"Provincial police officers and even the PCs are sometimes forced to give out their vehicles to be used for police patrols," he added.
The police boss called for increased budgetary allocation to the force, which also lacks modern crime prevention technologies.
"The Government should fund the security sector the way it does education," he said.
The meeting, convened by the Ministry of State for Provincial Administration and Internal Security, the United Nations Development Programme and the Open Society Initiative For Eastern Africa, discussed strategies to combat increasing crime by criminal and political gangs.
Proscribed gangs
Iteere admitted that many of the more than 30 gangs that were proscribed by the Government last year are still active after changing names.
Speakers at the meeting said gangs spread across the country remained the biggest threat to national healing ahead of the 2012 General Election.
But the Police Commissioner said the police would not allow a repeat of the 2007/2008 post-election violence despite the challenges the force faces.
"There will be no violence in the 2008 hot spots," said Iteere.
Also present were Administration Police Commandant Kinuthia Mbugua, Internal Security and Provincial Administration PS Francis Kimemia, Internal Security Secretary Mutea Iringo and his Provincial Administration counterpart Victor Okioma.
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Source: http://www.standardmedia.co.ke/InsidePage.php?id=2000042008&cid=4&
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