The Director of Criminal Investigations in Haiti Frederic LECONTE on Friday led a delegation of high-ranking officials in a visit to DCI Headquarters.
During the visit, Frederic LECONTE engaged his Kenyan counterpart Mohamed I. Amin on exchange programs that could see the investigators from both countries hold joint trainings aimed at sharing best practices.
Acknowledging the investigative capabilities of DCI-Kenya, LECONTE expressed his officers readiness to benchmark with the Kenyan team, noting that the country’s (Kenya) crime fighters had contributed pragmatically to regional safety especially in combating transnational organized crimes.
Tour to DCI National Forensic Laboratory
He also toured the DCI National Forensic Laboratory after which he held elaborate discussions with the Head of Forensics Dr. Mwangi Wanderi and other experts, on areas of cooperation and partnership in the analysis of evidential material and crime scene support.
LECONTE is part of the delegation that accompanied the Haitian Police Chief Frantz Elbe on a three-day official visit to Kenya for bilateral security discussions that ended Friday.
Advanced crime scene processing training
Meanwhile, 38 senior Crime Scene Investigators (CSI) completed an advanced crime scene processing training that employs modern-day forensic techniques and skills, ahead of their deployment countrywide to share the knowledge with colleagues as well as serve the nation.
The two-week intensive training that was sponsored and facilitated by the International Justice Mission was held at the National Criminal Investigations Academy (NCIA) in Nairobi, a police institution that was recently upgraded and accorded the national status to train both local and international security agencies on crime investigations.
Officiating the course closure, DCI’s Head of Investigations Bureau Abdallah Komesha called upon the CSI team to practice the skills they had mastered, pointing out that they (skills) were the solution to most crime puzzles in the contemporary society.
