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|  Kenya Police retrain 18 officers to fight Cyber-Crime
Police retrain officers to fight Cyber-Crime
Internet users at a cyber cafe. Members of the Cyber Crime Unit will return with the skills to deal with internet fraud. Photo/FILE
By FRED MUKINDA Posted Saturday, January 3 2009 at 20:54
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Plans are under way to revive the Cyber Crime Unit within the police force despite complaints that specialised crime-fighting squads have lately become ineffective.
Eighteen police officers are currently being trained on emerging internet-based criminal trends in the United States. The unit is expected to become functional in March after the officers return having completed a basic four-month course.
Before then, police will recruit information communication technology experts from the public to help the squad crack complicated cyber criminal networks. The team will be attached to the Criminal Investigations Department, the police arm that specialises in penetrating and dismantling criminal networks.
Police Spokesman Eric Kiraithe told the Sunday Nation that civilians recruited to the unit would be incorporated into police ranks to ensure they do their work effectively.
“At the moment we have had to outsource to increase the efficiency of the team. Immediate plans are to gazette successful candidates as special or reservist police officers,” he said.
The Police Commissioner has the power to appoint any Kenyan a special police officer for the period the person is required to carry out specific duties.
By the time the officers return, they will have undergone basic training in electronic money transfer and internet fraud. “The skills will be adequate for an officer to (recognise) with ease that a crime has been committed. They will acquire sufficient knowledge to understand how credit and debit cards operate,” said Mr Kiraithe.
Presently, the most prevalent electronic-based crime in Kenya involves short message fraud through mobile phones.
The initial Cyber Crime Unit, which was established at the CID headquarters in early 2000, is no longer operational. Officers who had been attached to the unit either resigned and were hired by financial institutions or were redeployed to other departments.
Another special crimes unit that has slowed down over the years is the Anti-Narcotics Unit that fights drug-trafficking.
Between April and July 2006, anti-narcotics police netted heroin and cocaine worth Sh150 million while it was in transit through the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA). Last year, drugs netted at the country’s main entry and exit airports were valued at about Sh20 million.
According to Mr Kiraithe, traffickers are avoiding the JKIA route because of strict monitoring systems put in place by officers stationed there.
However, critics say it is also in part due to the fact that the anti-narcotics unit is a pale shadow of its former self and that the unit is as good as disbanded.
They argue that the anti-narcotics unit has changed bosses five times in the last six years. Its commander used to hold the rank of Senior Assistant Commissioner of Police but it is now headed by a Chief Inspector, which is four ranks below the former post.
Other special crime units that are barely functioning include the Homicide and Airwing police units. The former unit, charged with solving murder cases, has its officers deployed to various police stations.
The unit has since been disbanded and homicide cases are now being handled by officers in charge of crime in police stations.
But Mr Kiraithe said the move was designed to decentralise services and bring them closer to the public. “It was designed to ensure that each station across the country had an expert in solving murder cases unlike in the past when all experts were based in Nairobi,” he said.
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I don't understand......is there hacking giraffe or a tribe of hackers?
I can't believe Kenya has a problem with hackers within there own country?
I'm not trying to be at all offencive, I just can't picture Kenya being a headline for hackers.
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| said by La Luna  : Here's a distance picture of Lagos, Nigeria where most of the Cyber-Crime comes from in Africa. I think the cops in Kenya are going to have a hard time dealing with criminals in another country like Nigeria.
To think Sir Paul McCartney was almost killed here when he did his " Band on the Run" album back in the early seventies. 
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