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The National Police Service’s annual crime report reported 69,645 criminal cases in 2020. Of those, assault was the most reported category with 14,046 cases. Offences against morality were the second most reported category with 9,153 cases or 13.2%. Under this category, defilement was the largest ...

As of 31 December 2020 Kenya’s total number of police officers was 100,481. According to World Bank data, Kenya had a population of 53.8 million in 2020. This means that in 2020, one police officer was serving an average of 535 people. ...

The National Police Service’s annual crime report did not contain a murder rate in 2020. However, according to the report, there were 2,082 murders in 2020. The Kenya National Bureau of Statistics estimated Kenya’s population at 53.8 million people in 2020. This means that there were roughly 4 m...

According to the most recent homicide statistics from the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, 523 women were victims of femicide in Kenya in 2020. This translates to 1.93 out of every 100,000 women. ...

A total of 1,048 rapes were recorded by the police in Kenya in 2019. ...

According to the UNODC’s most recent homicide statistics, 437 women were victims of femicide in Kenya in 2019. This means 1.69 out of every 100,000 women were killed in Kenya in 2019. ...