A police officer was arrested after he reported he could not locate his AK-47 rifle loaded with 30 bullets at Kabachi Police Station in Meru county.
The officer had been issued the weapon on September 1 for night patrols and was to return it the following
day but he failed to do so.
He told his seniors he could not recall how it went missing. It was then that he was arrested pending an
investigation into the same.
Police said they hope to recover
the weapon even as they presented the officer in court for custodial orders as
they investigate the case.
This comes a month after a police officer was arrested after he reported he had lost his pistol in unclear circumstances in a bar in Kehancha town, Migori county.
The corporal of police attached to the Kuria DCI offices had been to a bar in the area in the company of a female reveller when he realised his Duma pistol with 15 bullets had gone missing.
The woman he was with was arrested after the Sunday incident at 9 pm.
A search was conducted, but the weapon was not found.
A stranger was earlier seen engaging with the two before she vanished, and it is suspected that she stole the weapon.
It was then that the officer reported the matter and was detained together with the woman as investigations go on, police said.
And in June, a police pistol that had been missing for four days was found abandoned outside the home of a retired cop in Iten, Elgeyo Marakwet.
The Ceska pistol with 15 bullets had been missing since May 30, when a senior officer who had it said he was attacked and robbed of the same.
A colleague on terminal leave said he woke up on Monday and found luggage dumped at his gate, and when he checked, he found the pistol with the bullets and a mobile phone.
The Inspector of police who had the weapon was arrested for losing the weapon.
He was issued the Ceska pistol with the bullets on May 29 for official duties, but failed to return it three days later.
