Nakuru County Commissioner Joshua Nkanatha has expressed his satisfaction in the new security technology that the county is about to acquire saying that it will greatly boost security in the county.
Speaking at the county headquarters on Thursday during the testing of the apparatus, Nkanatha noted that the recent security lapses in Nakuru called for such innovations so as to tame crime.
“Police officers cannot be at every scene of crime as much as it’s their responsibility to fight crime, such innovations are welcomed to help them executing their duties,” he said.
He also emphasised on the importance of community policing arguing that public participation had proved a significant tool in fighting crime across the world.
“What we got to understand is that people who engage in crime are within us, we know them because we live with them, come out and help the police know of their whereabouts, it does not cost anything,” the commissioner noted.
Nakuru has been in the headlines in the recent past over the increase of crime with the most recent being a wave of killings targeting prostitutes that led to demonstrations in the streets of the Central Business District (CBD).
The innovation by international company SelectaDNA is a forensic crime reduction system used in linking criminals to crime scenes through a batch of DNA before sending an automatic alert to the police.