Detective arrested for hiring guns to criminals
A police officer has been arrested on suspicion of hiring firearms to criminals. FILE PHOTO | NATION MEDIA GROUP
What you need to know:
- They found out the pistols had been issued to officers on various occasions despite the pending investigations.
- They were arrested by officers from the Directorate of Criminal Investigations on January 22.
A detective in charge of the police armoury in Kiambu County is to be charged with robbery on Friday after he was arrested on suspicion of hiring firearms to criminals.
The senior sergeant at the county’s Directorate of Criminal Investigations had gone missing until he was arrested on Thursday.
He disappeared after a pistol was recovered from a gangster, following a shoot-out with police officers in Nairobi’s Industrial Area on January 19.
EXPERTS
On January 20, his seniors inspected the armoury in Kiambu and found a “small steel box” where four pistols were preserved as “exhibits,” because they needed to be examined by ballistic experts.
However, they found out the pistols had been issued to officers on various occasions despite the pending investigations.
Another inspection at the armoury two days later revealed that two pistols - Taurus – were missing.
The following day, and carrying a court warrant, officers searched the Sergeant’s residence situated at the Kiambu police station and found one of the missing pistols loaded with five rounds of ammunition.
A bullet proof vest, one holster and two magazine pouches were also recovered.
The search team was led by Kiambu police commander Adiel Nyange and his DCI counterpart Amos Tebeny.
AMMUNITION
Another search was conducted at the Sergeant’s office and 60 rounds of live ammunition of different calibres, 41 spent cartridges and a pistol magazine, were also found.
“Some of the ammunitions were marked for analysis. All scenes were documented by Crime scene experts,” said a police report.
In Mombasa, two Administration Police officers were taken to court on suspicion they pulled a passenger out of a matatu, escorted him to a financial institution and ordered him to apply for a Sh50,000 loan, detained him for four days until it was processed then grabbed the cash.
They were arrested by officers from the Directorate of Criminal Investigations on January 22.
The victim, a senior security operator at Kilindini port, Mombasa reported to the DCI that the officers stopped a matatu he was travelling in at on Friday last week.
