Male Police Officers and Response, To Crimes against Women in Murang’a County, Kenya Sayia
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2023-10
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Kenyatta University
Abstract
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
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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.
Description
Aresearch Project Submitted to the School of Law, Arts & Social Sciences in Fullfilment of the Requirement for the Award of the Degree of Master of Arts (Leadership and Security Management) of Kenyatta University October, 2023