CS Murkomen meets City of London Police, says new Nairobi unit to prioritise public order

Interior CS Kipchumba Murkomen, left, during talks with the leadership of the City of London Police. (Photo: Murkomen/X)

By Mary Wambui
Friday, June 5, 2026

CS Murkomen said the planned Nairobi Metropolitan Police Unit (NMPU) will, among other priorities, focus on maintaining public order and protecting businesses in the city.

Interior CS Kipchumba Murkomen’s benchmarking tour has extended to the United Kingdom (UK), where he held talks with the leadership of the City of London Police (CoLP), a unit dedicated to securing the historic city.

Speaking during the learning tour of CoLP, CS Murkomen said the planned Nairobi Metropolitan Police Unit (NMPU) will, among other priorities, focus on maintaining public order and protecting businesses in the city.

“We sought to learn the systems put in place to manage public order and protect businesses and critical installations,” he said.

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The CS was accompanied by, among others, Nairobi Governor Johnson Sakaja, National Government Coordination PS Ahmed Ibrahim, Kenya’s High Commissioner to the UK Amb Maurice Makoloo, and Deputy Inspector General of Police Gilbert Masengeli.

CoLP, UK’s lead force against fraud and economic crime

Established in 1832, CoLP is mandated to maintain law and order within the City of London, a historic district covering just 2.8 square kilometres.

DIG Gilbert Masengeli joins the delegation touring the City of London Police headquarters as part of benchmarking for the NMPU. (Photo: MOI)

Also nicknamed the Square Mile, the area includes the middle and inner temples (historic legal districts), a dense concentration of global financial institutions, corporate headquarters, critical infrastructure, and a small residential population that swells to over 500,000 workers and visitors daily.

With 50 per cent of all crime recorded in the UK being fraud-related and London hosting a huge concentration of global financial institutions, the unit also enjoys a dual mandate as the Lead Force for Fraud and National Lead for Economic and Cyber Crime.

Interior CS Kipchumba Murkomen led the delegation for talks with the leadership of the City of London Police. (Photo: Murkomen/X)

The unit is guided by three values: professionalism, integrity, and compassion that place victims of crime at the heart of its operations. It operates under a strategy formulated every few years and reviewed annually to reflect the evolving nature of crime in the iconic city and assess gains made in the previous year.

Following this year’s review of the current strategy (2025–2028), the unit found that the City’s Victims Strategy has driven sustained improvements in services, with Victim Code of Practice compliance now consistently above 95 per cent.

Before 1832, policing in the City was carried out by a fragmented system of watchmen, constables, and ward beadles dating back to medieval times. The beadles remain in active service but are now largely ceremonial.