Good questions. Would we rather have no photos / video / audio recordings or not so good ones that give us an idea of various criminal activities / occurrences? On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 1:22 PM, Isaac Mutunga <[email protected]> wrote:
In page 7 of today's Standard newspaper there is a picture of a policeman using his mobile to take photos of the evidence he found at Uhuru Park after the blasts. With my little knowledge photography and computer graphics, several questions came to my mind: 1. Is this the standard procedure for collecting photo evidence in a crime scene? 2. What is the quality of this phone camera? 3.Is this personal or official phone camera? 4.How would these photo be processed, stored and retrieved?
Anybody with answers?
--- On *Tue, 6/15/10, S.Murigi Muraya <[email protected]>* wrote:
From: S.Murigi Muraya <[email protected]> Subject: [kictanet] Law Enforcement / Information Systems To: [email protected] Cc: "KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions" <[email protected]> Date: Tuesday, June 15, 2010, 3:04 AM
Dear All,
The Serial Killer case exposes that our criminal detectives are either disconnected from court case databases (if any exist) or are poorly equipped to deal with reality on the ground. Probably both.
The Daily Nation yesterday revealed the Serial Killer had a pending Court Case.
The fact that he worked for G4S also leaves a lot to be desired - assuming he had to *annually* get a Certificate of Good Conduct from the CID.
There should be annual requirement for security guards to get Certificates of Good Conduct if it is not the case already.
Court case (basic) information should be at the fingertips of every cop on duty not just the CID. Every cop on duty (whether stationary or mobile) should be able to instantly access 'Occurence Book' (OB) details / data, recorded at ANY police station in the country tied to a particular ID#, Biometrics or even Aliases. Police transport (vehicles) should be equipped with information & communication technology. Cops on the move should also have all weather mobile devices to record (photo / video / audio) evidence. Court cases being thrown out due to evidence not being collected well ASAP should become an exception not expectation in Kenya.
As the KICTB / World Bank funds various ideas producing digital content helpful to governance let them keep some of these in mind.
If cops know their work will be aided using ICT or analyzed on social (web & mobile) media most will do a better job. Many will not leave crime scenes without taking fingerprints, photographs, audio recordings - even if they have to use mobile phones provided by the Government which can deal with a mobile company with offices in Kenya e.g. Nokia.
We may have lower standards of governance (public integrity) than Westerners but Kenyans who demand one law to be passed and enforced for all should be able to do so without being bombed / terrorized. http://www.onelawforall.org.uk/about/
Technically this is not difficult to achieve but politics, bureaucracy & bribery provide another angle.
What are we doing about it?
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