Misconduct & Failures Involving Police and Prison Officers Investigated - January 2026

The Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) is searching for a traffic police officer who fled an anti-bribery operation along the Nairobi-Mombasa Highway, an incident where three other officers from Kyumbi Traffic Police Base were arrested. In a separate case, the Director of Public Prosecutions secured the conviction of prison officers for their involvement in the 2021 escape of terrorist inmates from Kamiti Maximum Security Prison, which the court found was a planned event. Elsewhere, medics from Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital protested at Eldoret Central Police Station over the killing of their colleague, Richard Rotich. The medics accused security agencies of failing to protect frontline workers and demanded action.