Sayia, Johnson Barasa2025-07-122025-07-122023-10https://ir-library.ku.ac.ke/handle/123456789/30577Ihere has been g 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 ational Police Service, to examine the challenges rise women Survivors of erime fyee while reporting to the police and to determine how incidents sexual 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 Feminism, developed in 2 017 by Christina Hoff Sommers. The study utilized Ex- Post Facto design in the respondents study; whereas the target population was a total of 45 women, with a sample size of 4], The sampling projection was 20 civilian 5 civilian men, 5 Police constables, 2 Corporals, 2 Sergeants. 2 Inspectors, collected 2 Chief Inspectors, 2 Senjor Superintendents and 1 Commissioner. The data was through both closed- discussions, interviews, obse; collected employed two types of data: Quantitative and qualitative, Descriptive statistics was in analyzing the quantitative data. The descriptive s\atisticsrinclflfied measures of both centra] tendency and variability. The measures were mean, median, mode, range and standard graphs. Qualitative A 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 narra officers was greater than dissatisfaction with : SGBV being attended to by male police officers, while the increase in was related to the j concluded that the NPS gender-imbalance is the contributor to over-representation male of police officers in all of interactions between committed police officers on recording and investigating crimes against women. (enThesis