Challenges to Implementation of Community Policing in Kenya

Executive Summary

Community policing (CP) was initiated in 2005 to improve police and community relations; enable democratic policing and create a safe and secure society. However, it continues to face challenges. These challenges include trust deficits, public participation, conflict of mandates, and financial and technical capacity shortfalls. The brief recommends, among others, creation of outreach programs to enhance trust and confidence between communities and the police; public participation; streamlining the working of CP and Nyumba Kumi; and increasing budgetary allocations