The Directorate of Criminal Investigations has
deployed a specialised team of forensic investigators to the Kenyatta
National Hospital to look into allegations of rape and harassment of patients.
Director
of Criminal Investigations George Kinoti held a meeting on Sunday with
the team and the hospital management and security personnel, to
strategise on the investigations, which started at 4pm just after the
meeting.
PROBE
Mr
Kinoti said the team has seasoned investigators from different
formations under the DCI, and others from the Gender and Children
Department of the police.
“I will
personally supervise the investigations. The allegations made against
the hospital staff are serious and we have to get to the bottom of
them,” Mr Kinoti said in an interview.
The
team would also analyse the hospital’s security systems, with the aim
of unveiling the threats, risks and challenges that exist.
“After this, we will give a comprehensive
recommendation to the hospital management with an aim of enhancing the
security systems,” said Mr Kinoti.
He
said any employee found to have been involved in any crime at Kenya’s
largest referral hospital will be arrested and prosecuted.
COMPLAINTS
The
newly appointed DCI boss said his department had not received any
specific complaints regarding rape from patients at KNH, saying that he
had also never received any when he worked as the spokesman for the
National Police Service.
“We used to
receive complaints of theft. We are not taking these allegations lightly
though, and we ask anyone with information on the same to report to the
police stations,” said Mr Kinoti.
A
police officer privy to the investigations said the officers were also
scrutinising allegations that the whistle-blower of the rape allegations
against the hospital had tried to extort money from the management of
KNH.
When the detectives arrived at 4pm, they retrieved CCTV footage, interrogated workers and went around the hospital.
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