14 Police officers from Mandera on Thursday night stormed Kapedo camp to free a colleague, Richard Githaka Karanja, who had been arrested.
The Administration Police officers moved to free the workmate who had been taken into custody over robbery with violence.
Reports indicated that the officers, attached to the Rapid Deployment Unit, approached the camp and started firing in the air.
When they arrived, they demanded the key to the cell where their colleagues had been taken into custody.
After the officer was freed, they reportedly shot in the air several times before departing on foot back to their camp located a five kilometres away.
The incident took place that evening while the officer who was in charge of the station, James Maina, watched together with other officers who were on duty.
Karanja had been held in a cell with 11 other inmates but the officers only released him.
No one was, however, injured in the incidence where the officers argued that a general duty officer could not be allowed to detain their colleagues.
This comes days after Kabete police officers also fired at the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) detectives who had arrested some of their colleagues, Julius Oguma and Constable Charles Macharia.
The fire exchange, which happened in November, then resulted in the escape of the two officers who made away with Kshs 100,000 bribe they had extorted from a foreigner.
