Ipoa: Amending Act ‘will licence police to kill at will’

The Independent Police Oversight Authority has described introduction of a contentious clause in the National Police Service Act as granting police officers a blank cheque to commit extra-judicial executions.

Ipoa chairman Macharia Njeru warned the proposed amendment to the Act, introducing a clause to allow police to use their firearms to protect property and deal with suspects escaping from lawful custody would only encourage trigger-happy officers to misuse their firearms.