Photos of police officers who were involved in many crime.

More than a quarter of malefactions reported to the police in 2015 involved police officers themselves, regime statistics relinquished last week show — revealing the illicit link between malefaction and law enforcement officers in Kenya.
The Economic Survey 2016 verbally expresses uniformed officers were involved in 24,647 or 34 per cent of the total 72,490 cases of malefactions reported to the police last year. The official data, which was relinquished last Tuesday, withal shows that malefactor activity perpetuated to grow countrywide despite the billions of shillings invested in the purchase of equipment and recruitment of adscititious officers to reduce the ratio of security personnel to the population. The volume of reported malefactions hit an incipient high of 72,490 compared to 69,376 in 2014.

Traffic offences, which accounted for 14,498 or 20 per cent of the total reported cases, incremented by the widest margin, highlighting the perpetuated mess in road convey. Police officers were mostly involved in drug trafficking, malefactor damage and economic malefactions even as they fell less vulnerably susceptible to corruption by sex which reduced to 118 in 2015 compared to 146 in 2014. The report shows that police officers were withal involved in soliciting for bribes, accepting bribe, accepting gratuitous gifts, handling purloined property and authoritatively mandating by mendacious pretence.

The law-enforcement agents were additionally inculpated of purloining from people and other malefactor offences. And in what gives the most pellucid footprint of malefactor activity across the country, the report shows that Kiambu County with 4,768 reported cases had the highest intensity of malefactions followed by Nakuru (4,384), Nairobi (4,383), Meru (4,215) and Mombasa (3,194)