Why cases of trigger-happy policemen are on the rise

A DCI officer holds the AK47 rifle which a junior AP officer used to shoot his two seniors. He shot himself and died with one of his targets also dying at the Nyamira Referral Hospital. [Stanley Ongwae, Standard]

Hours before Administration Police constable Julius Mdachi resorted to opening fire against his two senior colleagues on Tuesday evening, he was under pressure to submit to change of assignment.

Nyamira sub-county Deputy Critical Infrastructure Protection Unit (CIPU) chief inspector Bernard Too who reported the shooting incident at the police station, said the officer had been redeployed from the county Governor’s residence to work elsewhere but was uncomfortable to move.