The Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) on Wednesday, April 26, announced that it had signed a new partnership deal with the Italian Police to train its officers.
Further, the Directorate stated that the partnership would also enable the agency to share best practices on how to fight terrorism.
The deal was signed by the Director of Criminal Investigations Mohammed Amin during his maiden meeting with Italy’s directors of state’s security organs.
Amin noted that the Kenyan officers would also receive training in anti-drug trafficking and information-sharing techniques.
Additionally, the Italian security bosses will also train the DCI sleuths on how to curb organised crimes in the country under the new partnership.
“The Director Mr Mohamed Amin was hosted by a delegation of Italy's Directors of the state's security organs in a partnership program.
"The program aims to share best practices and strengthen cooperation in police training, information sharing, counter-terrorism, anti-drug trafficking and curbing transnational organised crimes,” DCI stated.
At the same time, Amin was celebrated by the Italian police bosses for the work the DCI officers were doing to neutralise crime in the country.
“The Italian delegation lauded Kenya's Directorate of Criminal Investigations for its persistence in neutralising organised crimes, noting that Kenya was becoming uninhabitable for criminal rings,” the statement added.
The DCI Chief was accompanied by the Director Anti-Narcotics Margaret Karanja, the Director Anti-Terrorism Police Unit Johnstone Kola and Lawrence Some.
"They were hosted by Italian General and Internation Affairs Director Emilo Russo, General Director Anti-Narcotics Antonino Maggiore, General Gianfranco Scafuri and General Nicola De Benedictis among others," DCI noted.
To reduce cases of unexplained deaths of Kenyans, President William Ruto on October 2022 disbanded the DCI Special Service Unit.
The move came after several bodies were discovered and recovered from the River Yala.
"They had five years which they used to run down the country in which insecurity had hit unimaginable levels with bodies were found killed in river Yala. The police had deviated from the role of protecting Kenyans to killing them.
"That is why I gave an order that the SSU of the police be disbanded because it was killing Kenyans anyhow," the president stated in October 16.
