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letter to inspector general of police about lawlessness​

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Inspector General,

National Police Service,

Jogoo House, Harambee Avenue,

P.O Box 30083,

Nairobi, Kenya

January 19 2021

Dear sir,

I write on behalf of Human Rights Watch, first, to congratulate you for your appointment as the Inspector General of police last April and, secondly, to request a meeting to introduce our work in Kenya, particularly our more recent findings on killings by police of young people in informal settlements of Nairobi.

As you may already know, Human Rights Watch is an independent nongovernmental organization that monitors human rights developments in more than 90 countries around the world. We have monitored and investigated human rights issues in Kenya for more than 25 years. Human Rights Watch is committed to producing material that is balanced and objective.

Between April and May this year, Human Rights Watch researched the reported killings by police in Dandora and Mathare, particularly the killings of April 2019, October 2018 and August 2018. We interviewed 35 people including witnesses, family members of victims, medical and social workers and activists. We appreciate the input of the spokesperson of the National Police Service, whose perspectives have been incorporated into the findings. We are glad to share a summary of our findings with your office here.

Summary of Findings

Human Rights Watch found that, since August 2018, police have shot dead, apparently unlawfully, at least 21 men and boys whom they alleged were criminals in Nairobi’s Dandora and Mathare neighborhoods alone. Rights activists in those neighborhoods believe that, based on the cases they know about and those reported in the media, police have unlawfully killed many more in the past year. Under Kenyan and international law, the police should only intentionally use lethal force when it is strictly unavoidable to protect life.