NAIROBI: POLICE ARE ALSO HUMAN

                                                  Founder: TheAfricanVoices.blogspot.com

In the real sense people need to understand the functions of the police and what exactly they are suppose to do for the citizens of this country to prosper and live in a fearless life.

The Police Act lays down the functions of the police as the maintenance of law and order, the preservation of the police, the protection of life and property, the prevention and detection of crime, the apprehension of offenders and the enforcement of all laws and regulations with which it is charged. 

Police are also required to regulate traffic, keep public order and "prevent unnecessary obstruction on the occasion of assemblies.
It is suprising when we hear the so called human rights activists criticizing the police for using excessive force in their battle with the robbers. To them, the police should try and arrest the suspected armed robbers instead of shooting to kill them. When these Human right activists were moving from one radio station to the other and condemning the police killings, my arguement is that the police are also human, who have families that depend on them, and therefore they would not allow the armed robbers to shoot at them first, while they are also armed with guns.
Now I am asking these organizations, how do you arrest armed robbers who are ready to kill?
My view is that the police are doing wonderful job and it is their patrol that makes this great country peaceful.
My fellow freinds, do you wonder why Kenyans cheer when policemen are being beaten in public? A crime that is punished for life in the gallows in other countries?
Police are also human and we should treat them as Human. let us not criticize our police force.

^{Abdirahman M. Ali
Founder TheAfricanVoices}