Recent police conduct lapses cast shadows once more on Kenya’s insistence on deploying 1,000 police officers to Haiti as part of the Multinational Security Support Mission. In the last week, eight police officers have been arrested for extorting bribes and stealing from the public. These domestic incidents come at a time Kenyan police officers are about to be deployed to Haiti. With a population nearing 56 million, Kenya’s approximately 110,000 NPS officers are already stretched thin. Even if we overlook last week, Kenya’s police have a consistently troubling history of human rights violations.

Source: Daily Nation June 15, 2024 09:33 UTC