Detectives drawn from the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) have arrested a househelp who reportedly broke her employer's safe and stole several valuable items.

DCI officers, in a statement on Friday afternoon, revealed that the hunt for the househelp began on March 11, after the suspect's employer reported the matter at the Spring Valley Police Station in Dagoretti, Nairobi County.

The detectives, while detailing the incident, disclosed that the suspect, who had lived with her employer for 15 months, took advantage of her boss's absence and broke into the manager's safe.

According to the sleuths, the employer informed them that the safe contained valuable items, including family passports, foreign national IDs, 4,000 United States dollars, gold coins, Diwali statues, a pen drive, a hard disk, bank locker keys, and perfumes.