Haiti-Bound: Koome Unveils Police Ranks for Deployment
Inspector General of Police Japhet Koome has described the police cadre that will be assigned to the mission in Haiti.
Thursday, during a Joint Sitting with Senate and National Assembly Committees, Koome stated that three distinct categories of officers will be deployed.
A group of individuals will constitute the headquarters. Police units and platoon commanders were established.
Kenya will appoint the mission’s overall commander, an officer ranking no lower than the deputy commander of police and chief of personnel, to the headquarters team.
Additional personnel include the chief of staff, the chief of logistics, the intelligence division, investigators, and signal teams, among others.
Kenya intends to assign five superintendent officers and five deputy-formed police commanders to the formed-up police units.
There are an additional twenty-five liaison officers, operations officers, and support service officers.
Five platoon commanders and twenty-five chief inspectors will be assigned to Kenya as platoon commanders.
The remaining personnel consists of 655 Constables, 25 Senior Sergeants, 135 Corporals, and Deputy Inspectors.
“This should total 1000 police officers to be deployed for the mission, he said.
According to Koome, the police personnel would be in charge of the mission as a whole.
“Kenya to be the lead country in this mission and the Haiti team will follow suit,” he said.
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He stated that monthly mission reports will be distributed to ensure that progress is being monitored in the foreign country.
Previously, Interior CS Kithure Kindiki stated that Sh241 million had been spent by the government to prepare a portion of the police officers designated for deployment to Haiti.
Kindiki clarified that the preparation funds will be reimbursed as soon as the deployment is authorized.
“Our officers will not leave until resources and equipment are available. And we shall refund the monies up to the last of it,” he said.
Approval of the deployment of one thousand police officers to Haiti by the Cabinet circumvented an additional legal barrier in the convoluted approval process required for legal support of the move.
The deployment has been approved by the country’s council of ministers, according to a dispatch from State House in Nairobi; it will now be forwarded to Parliament for the required ratification.
The government’s decision to deploy the troops has generated considerable controversy, with one attorney having already initiated legal proceedings in an effort to halt the deployment in its entirety.
Previously, the High Court had momentarily halted deployment preparations in response to the attorney’s argument that no Cabinet decision had been reached and that Parliament was being bypassed.
Haiti-Bound: Koome Unveils Police Ranks for Deployment
