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In Bid to Curb Vendettas, Kenyan Police Swap Handguns for Assault Rifles
23 February 2008
Kenya Broadcasting Corporation
Junior police officers in Nyanza have been ordered to surrender all small arms assigned to them.
The directive comes amid fears of misuse of the weapons to settle vendettas in the police force.
Local Provincial Police Officer (PPO), Mr. Anthony Kibuchi, confirmed that he had issued the order that pistols issued to junior officers be returned to respective armories adding that even under cover officers would be given assault rifles and not pistols.
The junior officers... (GunPolicy.org)