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Inside the world of rogue cop

By Standard reporter

The latest incident on how Kenyan police are turning rogue happened last Monday, when a senior police officer, Inspector Ndung’u Njoroge, armed with a gun chased away traffic police officers from an accident scene on Outering Road, Nairobi. The Inspector was involved in an accident with another motorist. When traffic officers arrived, he drew his gun and started shooting as he chased them away. Hours before the incident, another police officer was captured on camera totally drunk in Nakuru. Even from those cases, it’s not surprising that when the Inspector-General of Police David Kimaiyo released the Comparative Crime Statistics for January – May 2011, 2012 and 2012, the figures indicated more officers are turning to crime.

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