Officers from the Directorate of Criminal Investigations and Kenya Defence Forces have begun training in fingerprint identification as part of the efforts to combat crime.
The DCI Deputy Director Ireri Kamwende at the DCI Academy presided over the official opening of a Basic Fingerprint Technology Course on Thursday.
In a statement, DCI said the high-level training is tailored towards enhancing the participants’ capacity to investigate fingerprint identification cases.
Kamwende urged the officers to utilise the opportunity and enhance their investigative knowledge.
He acknowledged that fingerprint identification is one of the most fundamental skills in the identification of suspects and linking them to a crime scene.
He urged them to pass on the knowledge they will have acquired to their counterparts in their respective postings, to improve service delivery to the people we serve.
This comes even as the DCI tries to crack some of the cases of public interest that include murders and homicides.
In the latest case, police are investigating the death of NITA employee June Jerop.
Jerop was until her death an accountant at the National Industrial Training Authority (NITA).
She was in charge of the vote account, a powerful section in the accounts department.
The 36-year-old woman was found murdered and her badly deformed body dumped in Jamhuri estate, Nairobi.
In another case, police based in Mombasa are searching for an international suspected criminal with fraud cases in three countries.
In a statement, the DCI said the suspect is wanted for fraud cases in Kenya, Australia and Uganda.
According to police the suspect has been previously arraigned at the Milimani law courts for forgery and being in the country illegally.
He has also been accused of obtaining services from top 5-star hotels in the city and sneaking out without paying.
