The Independent Policing Oversight Authority (IPOA) chairman, Ahmed Issack Hassan, has called for the improvement of the police training curriculum in the country to enhance accountability in the service Speaking during an interview with Spice FM on Monday, April 14, the chairman claimed that the current police curriculum lacks specific units that enable police to respect human rights during their service.
Additionally, according to the chairman, the police service should emulate other professions, such as law, and take police officers through refresher courses to improve their service. "I had a conversation with some officers last week, and some of them told me that since they left Kiganjo, they have never gone back to any training session; they just left, and they have been working for even 20 years, and there has not even been a refresher course," he said.
IPOA chairperson Isaack Hassan during a review of the anti-corruption strategic guiding framework in Nairobi on February 18, 2025.
Photo NCAJ "We have to change the curriculum and help them understand that they are not a police force; we are a police service," he added.
