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Spare a thought for the brave officers in uniform

It is official, and if it is not, then it should be: Being a police officer has become one of the most dangerous jobs in Kenya today.

This comes in the wake of the brazen Al Shabaab assault on Abdisugow and Damajale police posts near the Kenya-Somalia border that left two policemen dead.

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