Thika DCIO Jacinta Mbaika (in purple dress) alongside senior police officers from Kiandutu and Thika Police Station outside Royale Hotel in Section 9, Thika, after retrieving a loaded Ceska pistol magazine dropped by a suspect who fatally shot a SPIV officer. [Gitau Wanyoike, Standard]
A police constable attached to the Special Police Intercept and Verification (SPIV) unit was shot dead on Tuesday evening at Cravers, Thika West Sub-county, after a routine inspection of motorcycles turned violent.