CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2011
| Author | Matara, Joyce Kemunto |
|---|---|
| Title | ACCOUNTABILITY OF THE POLICING SECTOR IN KENYA: BORROWING FROM THE SOUTH AFRICAN AND NORTHERN IRELAND EXPERIENCES |
| Summary | The policing function in any society plays a vital role, by ensuring that law and order, as well as protection of human rights is secured. However, in many emerging democracies or societies in transition, the policing function has mostly been associated with systemic and gross human rights violations. Kenya is one of the many nations that has experienced human rights violations that are gross, if not egregious in nature, and the same have been perpetrated by the police. Reforms within the police sector have been nothing but a mirage, with the different political regimes promising to institute effective reform and accountability mechanisms. This thesis seeks to address the need for effective accountability mechanisms within the Kenyan policing system. The thesis shall borrow best practices from South Africa and Northern Ireland, being two countries that have emerged from conflict, political turmoil and policing systems that were marred with allegations of human rights violations, but have since established independent and effective accountability bodies within their policing systems. The first part of the thesis shall introduce the theoretical framework and historical background of policing in the jurisdictions under review, as well as giving the normative framework. Chapters three and four shall closely analyse the concept of effective accountability mechanisms and shall conclude by recommending the establishment of the office of the Kenyan Police Ombudsman. This office shall have the sole mandate of investigating all complaints preferred against the police by members of the public. |
| Supervisor | HAMILTON, MICHAEL |
| Department | Legal Studies LLM |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2011/matara_joyce.pdf |
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