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Japhet Koome, if approved by Parliament, will replace Hillary Mutyambai as the Inspector-General of Police.
He was nominated by President William Ruto on Tuesday, September 27.
Recruited into police service in 1981 as a graduate constable First posting was in Nairobi as a police constable before moving to the Anti-Stock Theft Unit in Gilgil Promoted to the rank of Inspector of Police while serving in Gilgil and stayed there until 1998 1998: Transferred from the Anti-Stock Theft Unit to Buruburu as the deputy divisional commander Was among officers who received anti-terrorism training at the Louisiana State Police Training Academy, US following the 1998 bomb blast in Nairobi He was transferred to Machakos and promoted to OCPD after the US training before being recalled to Buruburu In 2002, he was transferred to the City Centre to deal with bank robberies He then moved to Kiganjo Training College as an instructor 2005: Moved to Police Headquarters in 2005 to be in charge of police housing before moving up to become director of policy planning In 2015, he was transferred to Nairobi city as the commandant After the 2017 elections, he was transferred to Kenya Police Service headquarters as principal deputy Inspector-general 2019 wastransferred to the National Police training college, Kiganjo as the commandant
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