Current Structure
The current Kenyan police force, which reports to the Commissioner of Police, is a department of Ministry of State for Provincial Administration and Internal Security, one of the two ministries in the Office of the President. As of October 2003 the force fielded about 35,000 officers and is divided into eleven service and one training formations, who work in divisions in each of the eight provinces. Each province is headed by a Provincial Police Officer (PPO); each province is further divided into police divisions headed by an Officer Commanding Police Division (OCPD) normally in the rank of Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP). The police divisions are divided into police stations headed by an Officer Commanding Police Station (OCS).
National Kenya Police Headquarters is located at Vigilance House on Harambee Avenue in Nairobi's Central Business District (CBD). The commissioner is responsible for all administrative and personnel matters affecting the force. The Kenya Police is governed by the force standing orders which establishes the formation of various units and their scope of work.
Every unit of the Kenya Police Force now undergoes specialised officer corps training from world class experts. Among the international police training associations that have been given this ardous task, the most notable are the World Police Academy in Canada and the Dallas Police Department in USA. The World Police Academy is a premier police training institution that is also a global security and police think tank. It offers democracies in developing economies the opportunity to introduce Canadian policing standards into the senior ranks of their police forces. Getting this academy to undertake this training was achieved by the progressive thinking of current Kenyan police chiefs. The Dallas Police Department has a recognisable brand of policing and their systems are respected in many areas of the USA. Securing the training from such renowned training institutions is a positive approach for the future security of Kenya.
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