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Celebrating our galant police officers

Simon Kimuyu (Deputy OCPD Ongata Rongai), recieves an award from US Ambassador to Kenya Robert Godec during the outstanding police service awards programme held in a Nairobi hotel on 14/04/2016. (PHOTO: WILLIS AWANDU/ STANDARD)

Many times, our policemen are in the limelight for all the wrong reasons.

From extrajudicial killings, to corruption, torture claims, harassing innocent wananchi and all round impunity - their actions have eroded public trust and many Kenyans have little confidence in them. It is against this backdrop that the police reform process was launched and while there have been some progress made, it has remained an uphill task.

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