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TENDER INVITATION NOTICE
The Independent Policing Oversight Authority (IPOA) invites sealed tenders from interested and eligible firms to tender for the following services: No. Tender No. Tender Description 1 IPOA/OT/01/2022/2023 Provision of Security Guarding Services 2 IPOA/OT/02/2022/2023 Provision of Group Life Assurance & WIBA Plus (GPA) Insurance FOR MORE DETAILS REGARDING THIS TENDER ADVERT VISIT HERE: http://www.ipoa.go.ke/tender-notices/
VACANCY ANNOUNCEMENT
The Independent Policing Oversight Authority (IPOA) is a state Authority created under an Act of Parliament No.35 of 2011, with the mandate of holding the police accountable to the public in the performance of their functions. The Authority wishes to recruit results-oriented Kenyan citizens with drive, vision and creativity to fill the following vacant positions: […]
Optimism As Fresh Police Commanders Begin Service
After over a three-decade lull, fresh police commanders selected directly from the general public have today graduated in a colourful ceremony presided by H.E President Uhuru Kenyatta. Two hundred and ninety-eight cadets who underwent a nine-month training were hence deployed to stations across the country where they would assume the roles of middle-level managers, and […]
IPOA CHAIR CALLS FOR COMMAND RESPONSIBILITY
The Chairperson Independent Policing Oversight Authority Mrs. Anne Makori has today called upon newly promoted police commanders to enforce recommendations aimed at reining on the high incidence of killings and suicides in the Service. She spoke at the National Police Training College, Kiganjo Campus in Nyeri County. Mrs. Makori said: “One officer lost is too […]
ALEXANDER MONSON’S CASE: He Was Tortured And Denied Treatment-High Court
The High Court yesterday jailed four police officers after establishing that Mr. Alexander Monson who died after being arrested by police was “tortured” while in custody at Diani police station, Kwale County. Sitting in Mombasa, November 15, 2021, Justice Erick Ogolla imprisoned the officers noting that they further failed to take immediate action and have […]
FIVE POLICE OFFICERS TO BE CHARGED OVER DEATH OF MR. CALEB OSPINO OTIENO
UPDATE: The five officers have today, September 20, 2021 pleaded not guilty at the High Court in Nairobi. The Court ordered they be held in prison pending hearing of their case scheduled for December 6 and 7, 2021. Five police officers are set to be charged with murder at the High Court in Nairobi tomorrow, […]
INSPECTOR OF POLICE CHARGED OVER FATAL SHOOTING OF A STUDENT IN MOMBASA.
An Inspector of Police has been charged with murder of a secondary school student at the High Court in Mombasa today August 26, 2021. Mr. Tony Katana was shot dead at Uwanja wa Mbuzi, Kongowea in Mombasa on August 12, 2016. At the time of the incident, he was 16 years old and a Form […]
BE THE CHANGE THAT KENYANS YEARN FOR – IPOA CHAIRPERSON
New police cadets are indebted to Kenyans in hastening reforms in the Service, especially because they are first beneficiaries of a new programme that inducts police leadership recruited directly from the general public. Independent Policing Oversight Authority Chairperson Anne Makori made the observation while interacting with recently recruited cadets at the National Police College, Kiganjo […]
TWO POLICE OFFICERS – AN INSPECTOR AND A CORPORAL ARRESTED – OVER DEATH OF MR. VITALIS OCHILLO
Two police officers- an Inspector and a Corporal are today set to be charged with murder at the High Court in Nairobi over the death of a suspect. Mr. Vitallis Owino Ochillo alias Baba Anita alias Waingo alias Madaraka died on May 3, 2020. He succumbed to injuries sustained after he was arrested, allegedly for […]