Go beyond rhetoric on security matters

We have previously argued that one of the main attractions of the proposal by the Waki Commission to merge the Administration Police Unit and the ‘regular’ police force, was the huge increase in law enforcement officers. This was to shore up numbers since Kenya’s police to population ratio is below international standards.

For purposes of improving policing, this newspaper supported calls to scale up the police service and improve terms and conditions of service and backed many of the Waki team reform suggestions.