Improve police training on riot control

Recklessness contributes a great deal more to police killings of innocent civilians than ‘death squads’, the existence of which was denied by the Government at a United Nations hearing this week.

Debate on police killings tends to concentrate largely on how we deal with criminal suspects, specifically organised criminal gangs like Mungiki. Allegations of deliberate, planned killings of suspects usually overshadow the evidence of reckless shooting that results in the frequent deaths of innocent bystanders.