Police Ordinance puts Kenya policing on military lines
Citations (2)
- Background of DCI whole source
Official DCI history names the 1906 ordinance and military-line training; Hansard documents the 1907 British East Africa Police force.
- British East Africa Police whole source
Official DCI history names the 1906 ordinance and military-line training; Hansard documents the 1907 British East Africa Police force.
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Consequences
what this set in motion, following the causal links
- 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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Linked events (2)
- this enabled Colonial policing imports the Irish and Indian model
- British East Africa Police absorbs railway policing preceded this