{"id":114383,"date":"2025-04-30T09:03:57","date_gmt":"2025-04-30T09:03:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/index.php\/2025\/04\/30\/court-orders-all-police-officers-at-protests-to-wear-uniforms-and-not-conceal-their-faces\/"},"modified":"2025-04-30T09:03:57","modified_gmt":"2025-04-30T09:03:57","slug":"court-orders-all-police-officers-at-protests-to-wear-uniforms-and-not-conceal-their-faces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/court-orders-all-police-officers-at-protests-to-wear-uniforms-and-not-conceal-their-faces\/","title":{"rendered":"Court orders all police officers at protests to wear uniforms and not conceal their faces"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>NAIROBI, Kenya, Apr 30 \u2013 The High Court has ordered that police officers deployed during demonstrations must always be in uniform and should not conceal their faces.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The ruling follows a case filed by the Law Society of Kenya (LSK) where it sued an officer aleged to be behind the the death of Rex Masai.<\/p>\n<p>The body was seeking that the court stops the Inspector General of Police from deploying officers in civilian clothes to quell protests.<\/p>\n<p>It contended that all instances of murder and police brutality are linked to officers who have no identification cards or uniforms.<\/p>\n<p>The court was told that the incognito appearance enabled the officers to blend in with the peaceful protestors exercising their rights under Article 37 of the Constitution of Kenya.<\/p>\n<p>Further, the plainclothes police did not carry any form of identification and thus could not be distinguished from members of the public.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NAIROBI, Kenya, Apr 30 \u2013 The High Court has ordered that police officers deployed during demonstrations must always be in uniform and should not conceal their faces. The ruling follows a case filed by the Law Society of Kenya (LSK) where it sued an officer aleged to be behind the the death of Rex Masai. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-114383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114383\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}