Is a unit under Investigation Branch(IB) of the Directorate of Criminal Investigations.
Functions
- Investigating all criminal cases reported
- Providing professional advise to government departments and other public institutions on matters related to crime
- Investigating economic and commercial crime
- Detecting and investigating all cases involving fraudulent land transactions
- Investigating cases relating to homicide, organized crimes, kidnapping, trafficking in human beings and parts, pedophiles, juvenile delinquency, environmental crimes and all computer related crimes
- Investigating all fraud cases reported by all banking institutions in Kenya
- Investigating all fraud cases involving government ministries, departments and parastatals
- Collecting, collating, analyzing, and disseminating of criminal intelligence
- Updating criminal data bank
- Detecting, apprehending and investigating of illicit drugs offences
- Gathering and disseminating intelligence relating to illicit drugs to other law enforcement agencies
- Investigating cases related to money laundering
- Liaising with regional and international law enforcement agencies on illicit drugs operations
- Collecting and disseminating intelligence on tax fraud
- Establishing of surveillance points at border posts
- Coordinating prosecutions in the law courts
- Training court prosecutors
- Investigating complaints arising from investigators, prosecutors, state counsels and judiciary department.