Nyumba Kumi and community policing: how to take part
National Government Administration Office with National Police Service · sources read 4 Oct 2026
Nyumba Kumi groups neighbours into clusters for community policing. Organise with your neighbours, then speak to the police officer in charge of your area or your assistant chief and join the community policing forums in your area. It is voluntary and unpaid.
- Fee
- We couldn't confirm a fee from the official page. Check it there before you pay.
- Where
- In your area: the police officer in charge of your area, your assistant chief, and community policing forums
Steps
- Get together with your neighbours, local businesses and institutions to form a Nyumba Kumi cluster.
- Talk to the police officer in charge of your area. They help set up community policing committees there.
- Nyumba Kumi chairpersons sit on the sub-location community policing committee with the assistant chief, so you can raise issues through them.
- Attend community policing forums, where the committee meets residents and takes feedback.
- If you see, hear or suspect something, say it: share it with your committee or the police.
Watch out
- Community policing is free and voluntary. Members are not paid, and nobody should charge you to join.
- It is not vigilantism. Vigilante groups are banned in Kenya, so hand suspects to the police.
- Community policing is non-political. Committees and forums are not for campaigning.
Who can apply
- Everyone in the neighbourhood, whatever their faith, politics, ethnicity or gender.
- Any cluster of homes: a court, estate, block of houses, manyatta, street, gated community, village or bulla.
Official sources (1)
- NPS Community Policing Information Booklet nationalpolice.go.ke · read 4 Oct 2026