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They commended the team for their dedicated service and stressed the importance of cooperation between security agencies and local communities.
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They also acknowledged various projects and exercises in the North Rift region contributing to the overarching goal of establishing peace and stability.
Top security officers Thursday toured parts of Baringo days after bandits raided villages and killed six people in attacks.
The Chief of Defence Forces, Gen Francis Ogolla and Inspector General of Police Japhet Koome toured the North Rift Region as Operation Maliza Uhalifu continued to pacify.
Among the areas visited were the Multi-Agency Command Centre and Kolowa Primary School in Baringo.
The bosses were briefed on the current security status and the progress made since the commencement of the operation in the troubled six North Rift counties.
They commended the team for their dedicated service and stressed the importance of cooperation between security agencies and local communities.
They also acknowledged various projects and exercises in the North Rift region contributing to the overarching goal of establishing peace and stability.
"We are fully dedicated to this operation, our objective remains the same in as much as we are using the Multi-agency framework. Let us continue to engage the local administration and the communities at large," Gen Ogolla said.
Koome said they are dedicated to ensuring insecurity is addressed in the area.
He said Kolowa police station will get modern equipment to enhance service delivery.
They later visited Kolowa Primary School to inspect the ongoing renovation in alignment with the presidential directive to renovate and reconstruct schools in the region.
There are new classrooms and abolition blocks together with the renovation of other serviceable structures that have already been done.
They reiterated the need for the local populace to embrace this gesture as the government continues with more developments in the region.
Present during the visit were; the General Officer Commanding Western Command, Maj Gen Jeff Nyagah, and Army Special Operations Brigade Commander Brigadier Ahmed Saman among others.
This came two days after gunmen raided a village in Baringo North subcounty killing six people.
The incident sparked tension with villagers calling for more attention in the area to tame the attacks.
This came hours after the same gang had killed four people in Chemoe.
Police said the gang targeted a man, his wife and a child as they were headed to an event in Chemoe area, spraying bullets at them.
A contingent of a multi-agency team was sent to the area to pursue the gang in vain.
The incident was the latest in the region amid operations to address the menace.
The area is among those still under curfew amid ongoing operations.
But gunmen defy the curfew and stage attacks on livestock.
On January 5, at least three people were shot dead by bandits while on a mission to receive four stolen goats at Kerio River in Marakwet.
Police said the three including a 61-year-old man, a 43-year-old man and a teacher at Kombases Primary School aged 32 years, were all members of the Endo Peace Committee operating in the area.
Interior Cabinet Secretary Kithure Kindiki has been leading the operations in the area vowing to end the menace.
Kindiki said cattle rustling in Northern Kenya has over the years become an organised criminal enterprise responsible for deaths, destitution and displacement.
“Its impacts are severe. It deprives pastoral communities of their economic mainstay and aggravates the conditions of poverty in the rangelands, fuelling communal grievances and revenge attacks,” he said.
To dismantle the infrastructure of cattle rustlers and facilitators he said, the government is sustaining the war on banditry and its perpetrators, enablers, benefactors and beneficiaries by making banditry a painful venture, ensuring recovery of stolen livestock and rewarding facilitators of recoveries.