Menengai Location chief Mary Kamau has warned residents against robbers impersonating the police.
She says that cases of criminals posing as police officers while extorting or robbing unsuspecting residents were on the rise and tipped residents to be on the lookout.
The Chief who talked to this writer on phone was responding to a recent incident where tenants of a residential house in the area were robbed of property worth thousands of shillings after armed robbers posing as police officers on patrol invaded their residence.
She said the robbers had entered the compound of the estate at around 9pm before the gate was closed on Tuesday and identified themselves as police officers on patrol before starting to rob the residents at gun point and later drove away in a pick-up truck.
“The seven robbers were wearing military fatigues and said they were police pursuing criminals who they suspected to have entered the estate. They then confiscated mobile phones of the tenants and for over one hour ransacked the estate’s houses picking valuables and money before driving away,” she said.
The chief said a community policing programme and Nyumba Kumi initiative would be introduced in all areas of the region under her administration to curb crime.