Introduction
This directorate is mandated to guide, coordinate, and control the Directorate’s operations throughout the Republic in view of achieving the objectives, the vision, and the mission. During the year under review, Operation matters were properly collected, collated, and disseminated to other user sections/units.
The Directorate has several sections that are involved in the efficient and effective coordination of both field and office operations. The sections include;
- Operations Support Unit (OSU)
- DCI Security
- Crime Data Centre
- Ops Admin
- Communications
- Fichua
The table below shows the strength of the Operations Directorate’s as per the end of the year under review.
Functions
- To receive, collate and analyze all crime reports countrywide and advice the CCIOs and the Headquarters Section Heads on matters of serious and escalating crimes.
- To advise on appropriate methods of fighting crimes.
- Dealing with operational correspondences minuted directly to the section by the Director.
- Analyzing daily crime and incident reports and coming up with specific preventive measures.
- Liaising with Counties on urgent operational matters.
- Handling complaints against police, general complaints by members of the public and Habeas corpus.
- Ensuring prompt and speedy submission of monthly nominal rolls and other general returns.
- Ensuring prompt and speedy response to Parliamentary questions.
- Processing, reviewing and analyzing postmortems on important police operations.
- Overseeing, reviewing and analyzing hotline services including switchboard and Operations Room management.
- Overseeing general security of DCI Headquarters.
- Ensuring safe custody and control of all firearms charged to the Directorate.
- Maintaining an up-to-date record of all pocket phones issued to Directorate staff.
- Perusal, analyzing and compiling the Directorate’s Annual Report.
- Handling any other assignment that may be given from time to time by the Director.
