[kictanet] Building Bridges - Community/Police

[S.M. Muraya]

Six months ago, revealing IPOA comments indicate where there is goodwill,
Leadership will prioritize technology procurement and data collection,
protection + access to information.

https://www.the-star.co.ke/news/2018/05/14/weve-done-all-thats-humanly-possible-ipoa_c1757850

Of all the complaints received, since inception, about 1,700 complaints
> were processed and closed for lack of sufficient or credible information.
> Some of these were also caused by complainants withdrawing the cases. From
> the above statistics, of about 9,850 complaints, about 5,000 were unrelated
> to IPOA’s mandate.
> Looking back at those six years, the Board set out to ensure that
> complainants are fully informed of their matters. But this became IPOA’s
> waterloo. Processing 9,000 complaints, with 140 staff, without technology
> was a difficult task. Feedback has been wanting. That is a fact.
>


> However, with the new Electronic Content Management (ECM) system, based on
> Information, Communication and Technology (ICT), there is marked
> improvement.
>


> IPOA’s feedback is currently based on this system. Giving feedback was
> taking over one month. Now it has been reduced to one day. At a click of a
> button, any officer at IPOA could give feedback to a client on the spot, in
> terms of where the complaint is, or has been referred to; if it does or
> does not fall within IPOA’s mandate.


On Mon, Oct 8, 2018 at 10:35 AM Peter Wakaba <peterwakaba at gmail.com> wrote:

> Best and simplest way is to have the Nairobi control room number.
>
> And the kenya Red cross EMS lines...
>
> I had an emergency a few years back in the middle of nowhere and learned
> the hard way. the Mobile emergency call and 999 should work as well though
> usually not reliable.
>
> On Sun, Oct 7, 2018 at 9:02 PM S.M. Muraya via kictanet <
> kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
>
>> Dear Listers,
>>
>> We have an Access to Information situation (deficiency).
>>
>>
>> http://www.kenyapolice.go.ke/pages/links/27-about-us/69-community-policing.html
>>
>> As reliable as they may be (and they often are) OCS numbers keep on
>> changing as they are re-deployed.
>>
>> Do you know any non changing (working phone) number of the police station
>> closest to you?
>>
>> How do we emulate >> https://www.police.uk/contact/ |
>> https://data.police.uk/ ?
>>
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SMM

*"Better a patient person than a warrior, one with self-control than one
who takes a city." Prov 16:32*
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