Directorate of Criminal Investigations receives 250 cars for operations

By Cyrus Ombati

Nairobi, Kenya: The Directorate of Criminal Investigations has been allocated 250 new vehicles to boost its operations in the country.

Police boss David Kimaiyo said the vehicles were part of the 1,200 that had been leased by the Government for security operations.

He said CID officers had been constrained in their work because they did not have enough vehicles.

“Let them use the ones that have been allocated to them as we wait for 600 more. The 600, which will be coming mid this year, are extra and apart from the 1,200 that we had earlier been given,” said Kimaiyo during a meeting with senior officers in Nairobi.

CID officers have been complaining they do not have vehicles to enhance their mobility.

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And with the proposed increase in CID units, their workload is likely to also increase.

According to the proposed Service Standing Orders, under CID there will be an Anti Terrorism Investigations Unit, Anti-Narcotics Unit, Criminal Intelligence Bureau, National Central Bureau (Interpol), Forensics Unit and National Criminal investigation Academy. These will be extra units in addition to the normal administration at national, county and sub county levels.

While giving estimates for the current financial year, National Treasury Cabinet Secretary Henry Rotich said Sh3 billion would be used to hire more than 1,200 vehicles to boost police operations in the country.

“The fleet to be leased will comprise approximately 1,200 vehicles of different makes ranging from 1300cc to 3500cc including saloon, sports utility as well as commercial vehicles of up to 15 tonnes, with coverage expected to be approximately 60 million kilometres annually on aggregate,” said the CS.

Fleet management

The arrangement includes insurance, scheduled and unscheduled maintenance, replacement of non-functional vehicles, globally benchmarked fleet management, implants in government offices to monitor the fleet and capacity building for personnel.

The move followed complaints that the current model with which ministries manage their fleets had often been accompanied by increasing costs, without commensurate improvements in service delivery.