Police Officer Arrested for Impersonating EACC Detectives to Raid Top Gov’t Official’s Home
Police Officer Arrested for Impersonating EACC Detectives to Raid Top Gov’t Official’s Home: A cop is among five individuals set to appear before the court today for impersonating officials from the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC).
They were arrested in Kitui Town on July 19 while conducting a fake search operation at the residence of a senior county official, pretending to be EACC Detectives.
They were subsequently charged with numerous offences, including impersonating EACC investigators and conspiracy to commit a felony.
Other charges were abducting with intent to confine, forgery, uttering a false document, attempts to extort by threats, and being in possession of suspected stolen property.
The police officer in question has since been identified as an official attached to the National Police Service and currently deployed at Muthangari Police Station.
Section 34 of the Anti-Corruption and Economic Crimes Act criminalises attempts by the public to impersonate EACC officials and carries a jail term of up to three years.
“No person other than an investigator shall represent himself to be or act as an investigator, and a person who contravenes this section is guilty of an offence and is liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding three hundred thousand shillings or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding three years, or to both,” reads the Act.
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