Crack down on officers in uniform behaving badly

One in five women and girls is a victim of sexual violence in Kenya. That figure, revealed in a 2008/09 Government survey, should have sent alarm bells ringing among all law-enforcement agencies. If it did, they have done a pretty good job of hiding the fact from the public because evidence on the ground suggests that nothing has changed.

Police still continues with its well practised routine of either refusing to investigate rape cases and asking the victims to produce witnesses or doing such a shoddy job that the case can’t stand in a court of law.