Human Rights group has revealed that there were 152 cases of police killings and enforced disappearances in 2022.
Missing Voice said this was a 31.5 percent from the previous year when 219 cares were documented.
In the report, the rights body indicated that there were 130 police killings in 2022 and 22 cases of enforced disappearance.
Compared with 2021, there was a significant drop in police killings at 30.1 percent and 38 percent in disappearances.
“This is a positive trend, and we look forward to a Kenya without police violence,” the report read.
The report further showed that January last year recorded the highest number of police killings, with 28 cases from 11 incidents.
It was followed by July and February where 28 cases from 11 incidents and 13 police killings from 9 incidents were recorded respectively.
There were no enforced disappearances recorded in April, July, November, and December.
However, the report indicates that June had the highest number of enforced disappearance cases at six. Four out of the six victims were found dead.
Missing Voice says that the deceased was arrested at Kasarani police station only to be found dead later.
September and March became second and third as they recorded four and three cases of disappearance.
January recorded two cases.
“The last quarter of 2022 (October to December) recorded the lowest number of enforced disappearances at three,” the report reads.
“This was the same period the new government consistently condemned cases of enforced disappearances, a pointer to how political goodwill and condemnation of these crimes by the highest office can help reduce these cases.”
The report ranked Nairobi County as the leading in police killings as well as enforced disappearances.
According to the report, Nairobi registered 53 police killings and 11 enforced disappearances in 2022.
Most of the cases emanated from anti-crime operations conducted by the police.
Lamu County came second in police Killings, according to the report registering 15 cases, which were all done during an anti-terror operation in Boni forest on January 17, 2022.
Kiambu recorded 13 police killings, Nakuru 12, Kajiado and Turkana seven, and Mandera and Mombasa recorded four cases each.
Kiambu followed Nairobi in enforced disappearance with five cases, Nakuru and Kajiado with two cases each, and Mombasa and Kilifi registered a single case each.
It was revealed that Pangani police station in Nairobi County continued to top as the most notorious in police killings.
In 2022, the station recorded 32 11 cases, though a significant drop from 32 cases in 2021.
“This could be explained by the transfer of 19 police officers from Pangani police station on November 25, 2021, following sustained campaigns by the Missing Voice coalition.”
IPOA last year filed a case against controversial police officer Ahmed Rashid, who for years run one of the most feared police squads in Nairobi accusing him of extrajudicial killings in the slums.
The officer was attached to the Pangani police station and his case is yet to be completed.
Kayole police station and Kahawa West became second and third with 5 and four cases respectively.
Men continued to dominate both cases at 91 percent compared to women.
The report implicated DCI in eight killings last year.
