British East Africa Police absorbs railway policing
Citations (2)
- Law Enforcement in British Colonial Africa: A Comparative Analysis of Imperial Policing in Nyasaland, the Gold Coast, and Kenya whole source
Deflem traces the 1902 reorganisation and railway police absorption; DCI traces the IBEAC origin.
- Background of DCI whole source
Deflem traces the 1902 reorganisation and railway police absorption; DCI traces the IBEAC origin.
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Consequences
what this set in motion, following the causal links
- preceded Police Ordinance puts Kenya policing on military lines 1906 Company and railway security consolidated into statutory colonial policing.
- enabled Colonial policing imports the Irish and Indian model 1907 The ordinance gave legal form to a semi-military colonial police model.
- enabled Nairobi builds fingerprints, CID and criminal intelligence files 1911 Paramilitary order was paired with detective files and political intelligence.
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- this preceded Police Ordinance puts Kenya policing on military lines