The Swedish National Police Board (SNPB) has submitted a proposal to Sida about funding the secondment of a Swedish Police Advisor to UNODC (United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime) during the period 1 July 2015 - 31 December 2016 to the amount of 3 884 000 SEK. The Swedish Police advisor will support Kenyan police reforms through work and advise at the basket fund for police reform which is administered by UNODC. The Basket Fund was established in 2013 and Sweden has been one of the main contributors since then. The Swedish support to the Basket Fund amounts to 45 million SEK during the period September 2013 - December 2016 (Amb 37/2013).
The proposed intervention is thereby a support intervention, linked to the Swedish support to the Basket Fund managed by UNODC.
The overall objective of the Basket Fund is to support the Kenyan Government in its efforts to transform the National Police Service (NPS) into an effective, efficiet and trusted security agency for Kenyans in line with the Constitution. The Basket Fund programme is based on, and completely aligned to, the Kenyan government´s (GoK) national reform plan for the police and covers a broad spectra of police reforms with a focus on support to capacity development. All the three main institutions within the policing system receive support through the Fund, i.e. NPS (National Police Service), NPSC (National Police Service Commission) och IPOA (Independent Policing Oversight Authority). A Police Reform Steering Committee gathers all the main stakeholders within the police reforms area, both government institutions and donors, and this is the main forum where the work of the basket fund is anchored and governed. The Committee is chaired by the Ministry of Interior and Coordination of National Government.
The Swedish police advisor will be working within all the differents areas of police reform that the Basket Fund supports, but with a special focus on the support to NPS. UNODC will also propose to GoK and the Police Reforms Steering Committee that part of the adviser´s work should be focussed on Community Policing, albeit in a smaller scale than originally envisaged. In a longer perspective there may be increased focus on Community Policing - this decision would however be dependent on the development of the Kenyan reform process and the budget available from the Swedish government for Kenya..
The conclusion of the Embassy is that there are good possibilities that SNPB and the Swedish police advisor will be able to contribute in an effective way to the Basket Fund´s efforts to support GoK with police reform.This assessment is inter alia based on experiences from Swedish bilateral police cooperation with Kenya during the period 2010-2014.