TRANS-NZOIA COUNTY KIMININI SUB-COUNTY KIMININI POLICE STATION.
SUBJECT: SHOOTING INCIDENT REPORT:Ref my OB 26/8/7/2021 at 2130hrs. It was reported by one Ken Muyundo of telephone number 0722654788 and a licenced firearm holder s/no. 003804 that there has been a lady by the name Chemutai who has been persistently calling to meet him within kiminini market. The OCS arranged a team and laid a trap and the lady met with the reportee who fired a single shot to scare her and she was arrested and on interrogation, the lady alleged to have met the man and exchanged telephone numbers which prompted her to call him severally and she revealed her name as Phanice Chemutai Juma from kaboiywo village in kaptama location. On conducting a thorough search on the lady at the station, a wound was discovered at her lower left abdomen thus prompting the officers to take her to kitale county referral hospital for treatment. The pistol ceska mini s/no. C212983 belonging to the said Ken Muyundo with one magazine loaded with 10 rounds of 9 by 18mm and one spent cartridge have been retrieved and held as exhibit. Case PUI.
If asked to name a counterterrorism unit in Kenya, most people would probably think of the elite and highly feared Anti-Terror Police Unit (ATPU), DCI.
The special unit took centre stage during the Dusit D2 terror attack in January 2019. Although 21 lives were lost, more than 700 people were safely evacuated from the building complex and all the terrorists killed.
However, the fact that the heinous attack was discovered to have been planned and executed by Kenyan citizens warranted the formation of an elite unit to deal with the threat within.
In the first ever Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) magazine published on August 31 2020, Director George Kinoti gave a rare glimpse into Kenya’s most elite police unit dubbed ERT (Emergency Response Team).
DCI boss with the squad commander
Having been birthed due to the horrific terror attack, the special unit is only called out on the biggest and most sensitive incidents.
These regional teams handle most armed incidents in the country, from flushing out terrorists holed up in Boni Forest, to attacks in the North-Eastern part of the country.
On June 5, 2020 DCI Kinoti unveiled the special unit upon successful completion of a rigorous training period, with some of the manoeuvres and drills instilled on members of the unit falling under the ‘classified’ category.
Clad in full combat gear, balaclavas and armed to the teeth with an array of weapons including the Spanish made CZ Scorpion EVO 3 A1 airsoft rifle and the Belgian-made FN SCAR rifle, the members of the team members cut a mean-looking unit.
Their special assault rifles have doubled stacked magazines. This makes it heavier which works exactly in they way they want it to as a heavier gun recoils less, making it lethally accurate. The other obvious advantage to a double stack magazine is the added ammunition.
The level of equipment and level of training of these units varies greatly depending on the threat at hand.
“A platoon of young energetic officers are headhunted for this endeavour,” DCI Kinoti revealed.
They then undertake specialized training crucial for offensive operations that enhance practicable capability in its routine and emergent operational deployments.
These include basic and advanced anti-terrorism courses, combat and sport shooting, marksmanship, radio communication, urban surveillance, sensitive site exploitation, sniping, casualty care and hostage evacuation.
The team in partnership with other specialized counter-terrorism units that include the Special Program for Embassy Augmentation Response (SPEAR), RECCE and others across the disciplined forces carry out regular military manoeuvres that include intelligent and tactical approach in handling terror incidents.
These annual manoeuvres take several days and are usually witnessed by all top heads of the participating services and forces led by the Commander-in-Chief.
The key aim of this exercise is to nurture and cultivate the multi agency cooperation, making their actions during an emergency as fluid as water.
According to reports, the unit also undergoes a rigorous training exercise overseen by some of the worlds most lethal police units in Israel and the UK.
Deputy Inspector General Edward Mbugua has approved the deployment and reshuffling of senior police officers within the National Police Service (NPS).
Several senior officers, (OCSs), have been moved within the counties while some have been moved from one division to another within the same county.
The reshuffle has affected police officers under the Traffic department, Maritime, Railways, Security Detail, Chaplaincy, Logistics, Operations, Reforms, Directorate and Legal affairs.
Two weeks ago, IG Mutyambai ordered the reshuffle of dozens of Ward Commanders popularly known as Officers Commanding Station (OCS). This followed complaints that some of them had overstayed at their stations for long. To further strengthen police command at the grassroots, all chiefs’ camps, which were initially manned by APs, were converted into police posts.
Earlier in March, Inspector General of Police Hilary Mutyambai announced the promotion of at least 20 senior police officers after the changes were approved by the National Police Service Commission.
Some of those promoted to the same rank were the IG’s principal assistant Gideon Munga Nyale, deputy director of National Air Support Department (NASD) Rodgers Mbithi, and the director of the Internal Affairs Unit Mohamed Amin.
Others include the head of the Border Patrol Unit College in Kanyonyo, Abdulahi Aden, Railways Police Commandant Peter Ndung’u, head of logistics at Administration Police, and former spokesman Masood Mwinyi and director of personnel at Kenya Police headquarters Boniface Maingi.
The new police appointments also saw several regional commanders promoted to the rank of Assistant Inspector General of Police. Some of the regional commanders promoted include the head of the Directorate of Criminal Investigations in Nairobi Bernard Nyakwaka, Nyanza regional police commander Karanja Muiruri, Central’s Augustine Nthumbi and DCI’s deputy director of investigations bureau Carey Nyawinda.
Officials said Mutyambai would announce more changes soon.
The service commanders have been operating in acting capacity hence affecting the general command and order, with the full list of the changes to be shared later by National Police Service.
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