On Monday, June 13, President Uhuru Kenyatta launched the multi-billion National Forensic Laboratory at the Directorate of Criminal Headquarters along Kiambu road.
Sources reveal that the forensic laboratory contains equipment worth over Sh2 billion with an aim to enhance Kenya’s capacity to apply modern investigative techniques and cutting-edge science to law enforcement.
“These are scientific options that detectives pursue to understand and unravel many forms of crimes, especially homicides and violence-based crimes, frauds of deception and related crimes, computer and cyber-based crimes such as crimes committed through telephony and internet, terrorism, amongst many other misdeeds.
“To unravel crimes forensically is a painstaking and expensive endeavour. It takes the best of brains there could be that can notice the slightest deviation from what is just,” read an excerpt from a statement by the National Police Service.
The Forensic Laboratory was identified as a security flagship project under Vision 2030 and was one of the projects to be completed under the 1st Medium Term plan 2008-2012.
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