{"id":93613,"date":"2024-09-19T14:03:42","date_gmt":"2024-09-19T14:03:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/index.php\/2024\/09\/19\/change-of-guard-kanja-takes-over-as-ig-national-police-service\/"},"modified":"2024-09-19T14:03:42","modified_gmt":"2024-09-19T14:03:42","slug":"change-of-guard-kanja-takes-over-as-ig-national-police-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/change-of-guard-kanja-takes-over-as-ig-national-police-service\/","title":{"rendered":"Change of guard: Kanja takes over as IG National Police Service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Douglas Kanja Kirocho has been sworn-in as the 6th Inspector General National Police Service (NPS) following his appointment by President William Ruto and successful vetting by the Senate and National Assembly.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Speaking during the investiture of rank to the Inspector General of Police Douglas Kanja at State House, Nairobi, President William Ruto described Kanja as a seasoned leader, disciplined career police officer and a dedicated Kenyan.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn Kanja, we have a seasoned leader; a disciplined career police officer and a dedicated Kenyan. I have faith in his capability in providing leadership to the National Police Service.\u201d Said President Ruto.<\/p>\n<p>The President reaffirmed government\u2019s commitment to support security agencies to keep Kenya safe and secure.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe rule of law is the bedrock of our democracy. We must obey and submit to it for the stability of our country. We will continuing supporting our security agencies to keep Kenya safe and secure.\u201d Ruto said.<\/p>\n<p>IG Kanja took his Oath of Office and Oath of Secrecy in a brief ceremony presided over by the Chief Justice and President of the Supreme Court of Kenya, Martha Koome at the Supreme Court of Kenya.<\/p>\n<p>Kanja is the former DIG Kenya Police Service.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kbc.co.ke\/kanja-takes-over-as-ig-national-police-service\/\">Change of guard: Kanja takes over as IG National Police Service<\/a> first appeared on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kbc.co.ke\/\">KBC<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kbc.co.ke\/kanja-takes-over-as-ig-national-police-service\/\">Change of guard: Kanja takes over as IG National Police Service<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kbc.co.ke\/\">KBC<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Douglas Kanja Kirocho has been sworn-in as the 6th Inspector General National Police Service (NPS) following his appointment by President William Ruto and successful vetting by the Senate and National Assembly. Speaking during the investiture of rank to the Inspector General of Police Douglas Kanja at State House, Nairobi, President William Ruto described Kanja as [&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-93613","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\/93613","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=93613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93613\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}