15 senior DCI officers have been transferred as director Mohammed Amin continues to reorganise the department.
Amin has also directed that all officers of the rank of Assistant Inspector General will be based at DCI headquarters and head various directorates.
The Central Region Criminal Investigations Officer Bernard Nyakwaka has been moved to headquarters and named the director of complaints, while the Railways head of DCI Wanderi Mwangi is the new Director of Planning.
Coast Region DCI boss Bernard Baraza will be heading the Reforms Directorate while his Nyanza counterpart John Onyango has been named the new Crime Research and Intelligence Bureau.
Onyango replaces Paul Mumo, who was earlier moved to the Kenya Police Service headquarters, Vigilance House, where he is yet to be deployed.
Former Director of Legal Amos Omuga who was moved by former DCI boss to the DCI Academy has been redeployed to Legal, where he will replace his former deputy, Augustine Kittony.
Director of Operations Benard Gicheru has proceeded on retirement and has been replaced by Said Kiprotich, who was in charge of Police operations at Nairobi Region.
Director of Forensics Margaret Karanja has been moved to the Anti-Narcotics Unit as the head while Francis Wanjau, who was the DCI boss in Kisumu, was promoted and transferred to Rift Valley Regional as the DCI boss.
Marsabit County Criminal Investigations Officer Bethuel Oburun was promoted to the position of Central Kenya Regional DCI boss while Abdallah Komesha of the National Counter-Terrorism Centre was moved to the headquarters as the Director Personnel.
Komesha has swapped places with Gideon Kibunja, also an AIG.
Late last month, acting Inspector General Noor Gabow reshuffled senior officers including former Director of Investigations Bureau John Gachomo, who was transferred to IAU to replace Mohammed Amin, who was appointed the DCI boss.
However, two days later, his transfer was cancelled and he was directed to report to police headquarters awaiting deployment. He was immediately replaced by IAU’s deputy director Esther Ngang’a, who is also a lawyer and commissioner of police.
Gachomo was the first officer to disown an affidavit in the case of murder of Dutch tycoon Tob Cohen and said he only signed a one-page letter on the instruction of his former boss, Kinoti.
Gachomo has been replaced at the IB by Eliud Lagat, a bomb expert while the seasoned detective and Director of Planning at DCI headquarters Nicholas Kamwende was appointed the deputy DCI director. He replaced Hamis Massa, who has proceeded on terminal leave.
Sources said more serious restructuring is expected at the DCI headquarters.
DCI boss Amin has termed the changes normal, saying they are aiming at boosting operations. He moved head of Serious Crime Unit Obadiah Kuria to Turkana and named him County head of DCI.
