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Kenya: APs Go Hi-Tech to Fight Cattle Rustling |
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The Star |
| Source Date: |
Sunday, April 08, 2012 |
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ICT for MDGs
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Kenya |
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Apr 11, 2012 |
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The administration police will soon use the global positioning system tracking device to fight cattle rustling and recover stolen animals, commandant Kinuthia Mbugua has disclosed.
"The GPS chip will be inserted under the skin in one animal of the herd in areas prone to cattle rustling and a pilot project is in the offing," the AP boss said.
He said cattle rustling has been made a commercial activity and efforts to combat it through disarmament of the communities involved in the vice have failed.
He said a lot of research had been done by security agencies and livestock experts over the tracking system with positive results and was optimistic that it would stump out the menace.
"Several officers have undergone training both locally and abroad on modern ways of fighting the practice using technology as we move away from the out-dated manual ways," Mbugua said.
He said all provincial and district offices in the country have been computerized and officers have undergone information technology courses in a modernization programme that is almost complete.
The AP boss was speaking to the press after addressing his officers at the Machakos social hall accompanied by the local DC Kamau wa Kobia and Machakos AP boss David Nyandera.
Mbugua had earlier on opened AP community offices in Mua hills and Kasinga market in Machakos town in a plot donated by the local community who also put up the structures.
He warned his men against using unnecessary force while dealing with the public saying the new constitution has a highly advanced bill of rights.
"We have to change with the times and handle members of the public very carefully lest we find ourselves in trouble or being hauled to court for infringing on peoples rights," Mbugua told the officers.
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