DCI boss Mohamed Amin sets up a team of specially trained investigators from the DCI’s Homicide Directorate with firm instructions to diligently expedite investigations on serious sexual offences and murder incidents involving women with a view to put to an end the worrying trend of femicide in the country.
The team comprising criminal intelligence analysts and forensic experts, will also partner with other stakeholders to come up with swift and comprehensive preventive strategies to address this atrocious violation of human rights.
“These killings have cast a dark shadow over our safety and security endeavors; we must put this menace to end with remarkable speed and finality,” Mr. Amin says.
The team has been instructed to complete the pending investigations and ensure all those culpable are brought to book.
Members the public have also been urged to volunteer any information that could aid in investigations or assist in apprehension of perpetrators of such heinous acts through the toll free DCI hotline 0800722203
According to DCI data, between 2021 and 2024, at least 94 cases of killings of women and girls have been reported to the DCI and a total of 65 suspects arraigned in various courts across the country in connection with the murders.
