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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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, …
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 …
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 …
Six police officers have today been placed in State custody for fourteen days as they await being charged with murder.
The Magistrates court at Milimani, Nairobi made the ruling on the strength of an affidavit made by Independent Policing Oversight …
BY IPOA News
On August 12, 2017, the Independent Policing Oversight Authority received information that a nine-year-old girl was fatally wounded after being shot by a police officer.
After investigations, the Authority determined that an inquest be conducted by a …
