By Cyrus Ombati

Nairobi, Kenya: Inspector General of police David Kimaiyo summoned a meeting of senior police officers in Nairobi on Wednesday to examine their operations during the just concluded general election.

The meeting to take place at the CID Pavilion in Nairobi will be used for post mortem exercise for the polls.

Crime incidents in the country that seem to be going out of control will also be discussed. The launch the National police crime report for 2012 will also take place during the meeting.

Officials say the meeting to be attended by all PPOs and other commanders, will be used to gauge their strengths and weaknesses in the polls and help in future planning.

Kimaiyo said he was impressed by the conduct of his officers during elections and wants to encourage them.

Police received praises from various parties over the manner in which they handled the pre and post-election period.

More than a dozen police officers died in the exercise alone with the majority succumbing to injuries they sustained in an attack by a gang that police later branded members of the Mombasa Republican Council (MRC).

Others were killed in separate incidents across the country as they oversaw the exercise.

Some 23,681 special police officers were gazetted and deployed to serve the General Election. This is because police population, which stands slightly above 70,000, would not meet the required number to manage the exercise effectively.

They formed part of the 99,000 officers who manned the exercise, police said.

Of the special officers, 2,517 were male recruits from both regular and Administration Police, National Youth Service (NYS) 11,007, Prisons (8,191), Kenya Forestry Service (1,452), and Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) (514).

More than 300 police officers were deployed to the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission to guard its premises and 70 others at all tallying centres to monitor the exercise.

Further there were 11 aircrafts that were hired by the IEBC to deliver their materials and react to needy areas under police guard.