KNBS Report Reveals Kenya’s Safest County In 2024
According to the Economic Survey 2025, Wajir County had the fewest crimes reported to police by the Command Station, with only 358 instances documented.
Wajir was closely followed by Mandera and Lamu, which recorded 373 and 401 incidences, respectively.
Other counties with few incidences reported were Samburu (414), Tana River (436), Garissa (646), Taita Taveta (760), Elgeyo Marakwet (802), Isiolo (825), and West Pokot (849).
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It stated that offenses reported to the police reduced by 3.6% to 101,220 in 2024.
It stated that police seized 179 unlawfully stored guns in 2024, compared to 104 in 2023.
“About 26,900 kilogrammes of dangerous drugs were seized in 2024,” it said.
The study stated that there was a general drop in all crimes recorded to the police, with the exception of criminal damages, offences involving police personnel, and other penal code offences, which climbed by 0.8, 36.7, and 16.0%, respectively, in 2024.
It stated that traffic offenses and offenses involving visitors experienced the greatest decreases in 2024, falling by 58.4 percent and 42.6 percent, respectively.
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“The number of other offences against persons and stealing jointly accounted for 42.0 per cent of all the crimes reported in 2024,” the survey said.
According to the data, the number of murder cases registered and convictions secured by the Office of the Director of Public Prosecution decreased by 15.3 percent and 32.7 percent in 2024, respectively.
It said the Ethics and Anticorruption Commission (EACC) received 2,207 reports in 2023/24 compared with 1,968 in 2022/23, out of which 126 were forwarded to the ODPP.
“A total of 516,121 cases were filed in courts in 2023/24, an increase of 21.6 per cent from 424,324 cases in 2022/23, while the number of pending cases decreased by 2.2 per cent to 635,262 in 2024.”
KNBS Report Reveals Kenya’s Safest County In 2024
