{"id":74366,"date":"2022-11-14T15:37:04","date_gmt":"2022-11-14T15:37:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/all-news\/sakaja-koome-to-form-county-policing-authority-to-end-insecurity"},"modified":"2022-11-14T15:54:39","modified_gmt":"2022-11-14T15:54:39","slug":"sakaja-koome-to-form-county-policing-authority-to-end-insecurity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/all-news\/sakaja-koome-to-form-county-policing-authority-to-end-insecurity","title":{"rendered":"Sakaja, Koome to form county policing authority to end insecurity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Kenya. <\/strong><\/span>Inspector General of Police Japhet Koome and Nairobi Governor Johnson Sakaja have agreed to form a policing authority to end the insecurity issues in the county.<\/p>\n<p>Koome said that after their lengthy discussions on Monday, the governor committed to forming the body.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe governor will operationalise the Nairobi County Policing Authority as soon as possible,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The authority, Koome said, is anchored in law, including in the National Police Service Act.<\/p>\n<p>The act says that the county governor chairs the authority.<\/p>\n<p>Koome said that the governor can delegate the chairmanship of the authority to his deputy.<\/p>\n<p>Other members of the authority include the county police commander, the county criminal investigations commander, the national intelligence coordinator for Nairobi county and the police county commissioner.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTwo elected MPs nominated by the National Assembly will also be in the authority, in addition to having all the 17 constituencies in Nairobi represented in the body,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>He said women, youth and Persons With Disabilities will also be included and represented in the authority.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCommunity-based organisations, faith-based organisations and businesses in Nairobi will also be included,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>He said once the authority will be a game changer for security in the county after the last few weeks have been plagued by a spike in criminal activity.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\">Kenya<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Kenya. Inspector General of Police Japhet Koome and Nairobi Governor Johnson Sakaja have agreed to form a policing authority to end the insecurity issues in the county. Koome said that after their lengthy discussions on Monday, the governor committed to forming the body. \u201cThe governor will operationalise the Nairobi County Policing Authority as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":74365,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[6857,7003,544],"class_list":["post-74366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-community","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-kenya","tag-kenya"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Sakaja, Koome to form county policing authority to end insecurity - kenya<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Inspector General of Police Japhet Koome and Nairobi Governor Johnson Sakaja have agreed to form a policing authority to ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/all-news\/sakaja-koome-to-form-county-policing-authority-to-end-insecurity\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Sakaja, Koome to form county policing authority to end insecurity\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Inspector General of Police Japhet Koome and Nairobi Governor Johnson Sakaja have agreed to form a policing authority to ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/all-news\/sakaja-koome-to-form-county-policing-authority-to-end-insecurity\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"kenya\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2022-11-14T15:37:04+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2022-11-14T15:54:39+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/kenya\/sites\/28\/2022\/11\/postQueueImg_1668427631.44.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1000\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"667\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/all-news\/sakaja-koome-to-form-county-policing-authority-to-end-insecurity#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/all-news\/sakaja-koome-to-form-county-policing-authority-to-end-insecurity\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Sakaja, Koome to form county policing authority to end insecurity\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-11-14T15:37:04+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-11-14T15:54:39+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/all-news\/sakaja-koome-to-form-county-policing-authority-to-end-insecurity\"},\"wordCount\":235,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/all-news\/sakaja-koome-to-form-county-policing-authority-to-end-insecurity#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/kenya\/sites\/28\/2022\/11\/postQueueImg_1668427631.44.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Kenya\",\"Kenya\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"community\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/all-news\/sakaja-koome-to-form-county-policing-authority-to-end-insecurity#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/all-news\/sakaja-koome-to-form-county-policing-authority-to-end-insecurity\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/all-news\/sakaja-koome-to-form-county-policing-authority-to-end-insecurity\",\"name\":\"Sakaja, Koome to form county policing authority to end insecurity - 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