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    Male Police Officers and Response, To Crimes against Women in Murang’a County, Kenya Sayia
    (Kenyatta University, 2023-10) Barasa, Johnson
    victims There has been a RIOWing research interest in examining police officers’ response ‘0, dominance of erime, but very few studies have empirically assessed male police officers and how it hag impacted reporting of crimes against women. This study aimed in Murang"a in establishing male police officers and their response to crimes against women County, Kenya, The hobjectives were; to determine the prevalent of male dominance women ational Police Service, to examine the challenges rise sexual Survivors of erime fyee while reporting to the police and to determine how incidents and gender-based Violence impact the willingness of women to report Sl{Ch response to the police, Necessity to address the issues that revolve around police (0 crimes against female persons was discussed through the theory of Equity researcl Within the N Post Feminism, developed in 2 017 by Christina Hoff Sommers. The study utilized Ex- Facto design in the respondents study; whereas the target population was a total of 45 with a sample size of 4], The sampling projection was 20 civilian women, 5 civilian men, 5 Police constables, 2 Corporals, 2 Sergeants. 2 Inspectors, collected 2 Chief Inspectors, through 2 Senjor Superintendents and 1 Commissioner. The data was discussions, both closed-ended and open-ended questionnaires, focus group collected interviews, observation and perusal of secondary sources. The study employed two types of data: Quantitative and qualitative, Descriptive statistics was in analyzing the quantitative data. The descriptive statistics: included mode, measures of both centra] tendency and variability. The measures were mean, median, graphs. range Qualitative and standard deviation. They were presented visually by tables and data was analyzed by focusing on the identification and reporting of themes within the collected data. Findings from the qualitative data were presented in verbatim quotes and narrative form. It was found out that the number of male police dissatisfaction officers was greater than that of female police officers, women expressed their SGBV with being attended to by male police officers, while the increase in concluded was related to the improper handling of cases reported by women. The study that the NPS gender-imbalance is the contributor to over-representation male police of officers in all areas of police deployments, resulting into rare occurrences makes of interactions between members of the public and female police officers. The study recommendations existing for the NPSC to ensure there is full implementation of the specialized laws and formulate policies regarding recruitment of police officers, and committed training of police officers on recording and investigating crimes against women.