John Onyango: DCI Boss Mohamed Amin Names New Deputy

The handover ceremony took place at the DCI headquarters in the Mazingira Building. 

Edith Stacy Edith Stacy
Feb 13, 2024 - 15:50 Updated: Apr 10, 2024 - 15:37
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John Onyango: DCI Boss Mohamed Amin Names New Deputy
DCI director Mohamed Amin speaking as DCI's Anti-Narcotics Unit received state-of-the-art equipment from the United States through the Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs (INL) on February 8, 2023. /DCI

John Onyango, who served as the director of the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) Crime Research & Intelligence Bureau (CRIB), has been appointed as the new deputy director of the DCI. 

The changes were announced on Tuesday, February 13. Onyango succeeds Nicholas Ireri Kamwende, who retired upon reaching the retirement age. 

The handover ceremony took place at the DCI headquarters in the Mazingira Building. 

Onyango will be deputizing DCI director, Mohamed Amin in his new role, which will be administrative and also involve the coordination of various operations across the country.

Newly-appointed deputy director of the DCI, John Onyango. /FILE

Before this appointment, Onyango had on several occasions represented DCI boss Amin in functions.

An example is when he presided over the ceremony of a basic drug investigation course at a hotel located in Nairobi, which lasted a week.

The training was tailored towards enhancing and providing specialised investigative techniques for advanced-level drug investigators, bringing together officers from the Anti-Narcotics Unit and the Kenya Coast Guard.

On January 22, 2024, he also presided over the official opening of the Operational Intelligence Analysis course which took place at the National Criminal Investigations Academy.

The course brought together a total of 18 crime research experts from across the country.

Before he was appointed to head CRIB, Onyango also served as a former Nyanza Region DCI boss. He was moved to the Headquarters in 2022.

CRIB is key in DCI operations and 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.

Last week, Amin made changes within the service after moving the heads of detectives within Lang’ata, Starehe and Kasarani Sub-Counties.

DCI officers stand guard at the investigative agency's headquarters along Kiambu Road. /DCI

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