A new report of a Simplified Version of the Report of the National Task Force on Police Reforms (Ransley Report) will be launched tomorrow January 26, 2011 at 8:30am at Hilton Hotel in Nairobi.
The launch is part of a series of activities towards sustaining the demand for a comprehensive and meaningful reform of the police force that will include eight regional forums and road shows.
According to Kenya National Commission on Human Rights (KNCHR), since the promulgation of the new Constitution, there is little to show that accounts for a meaningful cultural shift by the police or even a broad acknowledgement of the new domain of rights as enshrined in the new constitution.
The KNCHR is calling for swift response and all Kenyans to be more involved in the reforms of the police.
“The violation of Kenyans is still common place with casual and/or audacious illegalities that informs an unweathering culture of impunity within the Police Force. This is in part evidenced by the Rendition of Kenyans to Uganda and the continued spat of extrajudicial killings,” says KNCHR.
“Sadly, the police “play” on public fear, attempt to manipulate public opinion in a bid to win public sympathy and support for heinous acts of murder and/or extrajudicial killings and the numerous other violations of human rights. How can any decent, civilized nation excite fear and sympathy to win support for any killings under the circumstances.”
The rights organisation is calling on Kenyans to stop this heinous act. “We have a responsibility to empower every Kenyan to appreciate the veracity and illegality of these crimes not matter the magnitude of the challenges,” says KNCHR.
The organisation says that there is a need to discourse and build a national understanding that extrajudicial killing and the commission of crimes by the Police and public officer is unacceptable and must be punished.
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