Mandate
The Unit mandate is to coordinate, plan and execute communication of the Directorate’s policies and programmes. This includes ensuring that information for both internal and external consumption is streamlined through a multi- faceted communications approach with a view to promoting the Directorates identity and mandate.
Corporate Communications and Public Affairs cuts across all other Directorates within the DCI in terms of communication and shall put in place strategies to sustain the image of the DCI and ensure that trust and confidence from our publics and stakeholders is sustained.
Specific Objective
Build, promote and sustain a positive image of the Directorate of Criminal investigations.
Mission
- To establish strategic mechanisms for operational and institutional framework to enhance Communication within the DCI
Functions of the Unit
- Developing Communication strategies for the Directorate
- Overseeing general protocol at the Directorate; coordinating the organization of public events
- Organizing advocacy programs on Print, Electronic and Social Media
- Advising on media issues and acting as a link between the media key stakeholders and the Directorate
- Ensuring appropriate branding and visibility within and without the Directorate
- Arranging for media coverage of all the Directorate’s events; sourcing for appropriate television and radio programs to disseminate information on activities of the Directorate
- Coordination of the production of the Directorate’s Magazine and Newsletters
- Documenting the Directorates events through video, photography and press cuttings for public consumption and institutional memory.
- Preparing and placement of Radio, TV, Social Media and Print Informercials
- Coordinating the preparation of official speeches
- Overseeing the preparation of exhibitions and trade fairs; and ensuring that appropriate feedback mechanisms are in place in the Directorate.
