Murkomen Addresses Kiganjo Police College’s Planned Transfers
Interior Cabinet Secretary Kipchumba Murkomen has denied reports that the government plans to relocate the national Kiganjo Police Training College.
It is alleged that the move from Nyeri to the North Rift is part of an effort to alleviate the region’s long-standing banditry issue.
Murkomen announced on Tuesday, December 30, that the government intends to create multiple multi-agency training centers and schools in the region.
There are no plans to transfer Kiganjo from its existing location, which comprises the police and the Kenya Defence Forces.
“We have plans to set up training schools in those areas,” the CS said.
“Actually, what we want is a situation where, after completing training classes at the current training schools, we want them to move to these disturbed areas for further training to enhance their expertise and orient them to what actually happens on the ground.”
Interior Cabinet Secretary Kipchumba Murkomen has dismissed claims that the government plans to relocate the Kiganjo Police Training College from Nyeri to the North Rift in a bid to address persistent banditry in the region. Speaking on Tuesday, December 30, Murkomen clarified… pic.twitter.com/mXrFFT77eH
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“However, when I recently said that, someone started saying that I was meaning to close Kiganjo and take it to Marakwet. No, that is not what I meant,” Murkomen clarified.
The CS stated that the service is transitioning to a model in which police practical training will take place in the field rather than in town-based centres, where the three main colleges are currently located.
Separately, the National Police Service (NPS) has announced that a revamped training curriculum would now include forensics, current technology, and cybercrime detection within the initial training stage.
This is a shift from the old method, in which such specialised expertise was introduced only after personnel were deployed to units like the DCI.
Kenya’s basic police training is organized into three major institutions: Kiganjo for regular police officers, Embakasi A for Administration Police, and Embakasi B for recruits to the General Service Unit.
Nyeri Town MP Dan Maina has rejected the government’s plan to relocate the Kiganjo Police Training Centre to Baringo. pic.twitter.com/MjDERZBKWx
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Other training institutes are largely advanced and specialist, such as the Magadi Police Training College, which is an offshoot of the Embakasi B campus.
The institution specializes in field-based training for GSU recruits and officers pursuing promotion courses, with a concentration on tactical and fieldcraft competence in Kajiado County.
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Murkomen also claimed that the government is planning to build a National Police University, with preparations already underway.
“This idea we got from the Jukwaa la Usalama, where Kenyans had told us that the 9-month basic training which we offer our officers is not enough, and that is why we are advancing the plans,” he stated.
“There must be continuous training for them to enhance their operational mandate.”
Meanwhile, with growing instability and rising tensions in the Kerio Valley, the government has announced plans to enlist the KDF in stabilisation operations by establishing training facilities in the area.
Murkomen Addresses Kiganjo Police College’s Planned Transfers
