IPOA chairman Isaak Haasan and other members at their offices in Meru on Tuesday. Photo/Dennis Dibondo
By Dennis Dibondo
The chairman of Independent Police Oversight Authority (IPOA) Isaak Hassan has said they have investigated 34 cases which were prosecuted by the Director of Public Prosecutions.
He said they have over 250 ongoing court cases across the country.
Hassan said they faced challenges investigating some cases because it involves police officers.
“It is difficult when investigating police officers and you require evidence from other police officers to protect their name,” Hassan said.
He said they have talked to the Inspector General of National Police Service Douglas Kanja about lack of cooperation from police officers.
On abductions, he said they sent their staff to investigate and they found out that the police were not involved.
Hassan said they have a challenge with being understaffed therefore their staff are overworked. .
“IPOA is 10 years old and has 284 staff out of which 77 are investigators and it is supposed to investigate a police force that was established more than a century with 120,000 police officers spread across the country.You can imagine the scope of work,” Hassan said.
“In the last budget we wanted to employ 23 additional staff and we were denied and then the police will employ 10,000 more so try and compare,” Hassan said.
He said IPOA aims to restore confidence of Kenyans in the police service.
He spoke in Meru on Tuesday when he visited their regional office.
“We were in Nyeri on Monday. We will visit Embu and Garissa and go to Kisumu and Eldoret. We have got nine regional office.We should have 47 offices but because of lack of resources we only have nine regional offices,” Hassan said.
He said they got feedback from the Civil Society which will help in the future.
“We want to develop a new strategic plan to guide us in the next six years and it will be guided by the feedback from Kenyans,” he said.
Hassan was accompanied by his Vice Chairman Ann Wanjiku and other members.
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