Former Nyanza Region DCI boss John Onyango has today been promoted to deputize Mohammed Amin at Mazingira House.
He has replaced Mr Nicholas Ireri Kamwende, who retired from the service after attaining retirement age.
Onyango will have a full in-tray of duties to carry out due to sensitivity of the investigative job. As the new deputy, his main job will be, among others, the administration and coordination of various operations.
CRIB where he has been is key in DCI operations, was formed as a result of the need to have a centralized unit that profiles offenders and provides advisory.
Its main mandate includes offender profiling and crime.
It collects crime data from all over the country and stores it in a database, identifies crime patterns and trends and researches the same to advise the stakeholders and provide a link between investigative units in the country to enable them to share criminal data among themselves.
It also integrates with other government data repositories to enrich the offender profiling process and liaise with investigative and operational units by providing analytical assistance.
