Saidi Kiprotich a former boss of the defunct Flying Squad and Special Crimes Prevention Unit is the new director of the Anti Terrorism Police Unit (ATPU).
He takes over from Johnstone Kola who has retired from the service after attaining the retirement age.
Until his appointment to the position, Kiprotich a seasoned officer having served at various levels in the service was the director of operations at the Directorate of Criminal Investigations headquarters.
Kiprotich once served as the director of operations at Nairobi Regional Command before he was moved to the DCI in the same capacity.
He had also served as the county commander for Taita Taveta and at the defunct Flying Squad and Special Crimes Prevention Unit.
ATPU is one of the elite units in the National Police Service and is mandated to mitigate and investigate terrorism-related cases in the country.
It was formed in 2003 as a unit to investigate all terrorism matters.
This was after several terror attacks were experienced in the country for example US Embassy (1998) and the Kikambala (2002) terror attacks.
And since then, the team has managed to detect and contain dozens of planned terror-related attacks.
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