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Police Reforms Programme Moves Ahead with Reform Roll Out across Kenya
The Police Reforms Programme in Kenya received the Inspector General's go ahead to roll out key messages from some 29 reforming policies and regulations to 1000 police stations and posts throughout the country. Starting early 2016, and facilitated by a UNODC-implemented Basket Fund for Police Reforms, this initiative represents the largest scale systemic attempt to reform policing methods in a generation.
Throughout October and November, the Basket Fund supported 20 police officers to analyse the Service Standing Orders, Strategic Plan, Gender Mainstreaming Policy, Firearms Regulations, and many other key reforming laws, policies and regulations. A key accomplishment in November was the Inspector General's explicit direction that all 29 reforming documents may be used for this exercise in their current format - and also his request that middle and senior ranking officers passionate about reforms volunteer themselves to spearhead this process in 2016.
National Police Service (NPS) officers this month determined what county and police station commanders need to know, what change is expected of them, and what yardstick will be used to assess future performance. All messages are described in the Police Reforms Roadmap Toolkit, which is being collated by a Basket Fund technical specialist.
The Roadmap Toolkit represents a step change for the Basket Fund's support to Police Reforms: following years of much-valued technical support to reform of policing legislation, policy and regulations, the Basket Fund's implementation of the Roadmap Toolkit will shift the focus of police reforms away from police HQ, and down to the 1000 police stations and posts throughout Kenya.
Next month, on 15 December, 47 county commanders will be given an opportunity to appraise the toolkit, and advise on how to make it contextually relevant to their operating environment. From there, starting in early 2016, the Toolkit will be cascaded down to Police Station commanders, and frontline police officers. County and police station commanders will adopt reforming action points from the Toolkit, and the Basket Fund will support measurement of performance - and NPS progress with respect to reforms - against those action points.
The Toolkit will be used to train champions of reform who will then hold familiarisation workshops of senior personnel in the counties, police stations and sub-stations.
Read more about the Basket Fund's Police Reforms Roadmap at https://www.unodc.org/easternafrica/en/justice-guide.html