SAFETY and TIPS

Secure your household

Recognizing the rising threats facing society, we are happy to share Safety and tips as a guide to remaining safe and secure. Reducing the likelihood of being a victim of crime requires a pro-active approach. We are glad to offer safety and tips for different scenarios to ensure
safety for members of the public:

Home Security When on Holiday/Work

Vehicle Safety

Commercial Security

Anti- Terrorism

HOME SECURITY

1. Ensure shrubs and bushes are cleared in the areas leading up to your driveway. These may act as hiding places for potential criminals.
2. Install an adequate fence/ wall which acts as a barrier to would be criminals
3. Install lighting throughout areas of your compound,
remember criminals are deterred by light and spurred on by darkness!
4. Contract the guarding services of a professional company, members of the KSIA are generally recommended.

5. Install an alarm system from a KSIA member. In the event of criminal activity, assistance can be sought.
Ensure your system is serviced regularly.
6. Fortify your house, consider the following:
Strong front door, with relevant locks
Reinforce windows with grills.
Consider a safe area.
Install a safe for documents, valuables cash etc
7. Fully insure your property and its contents
8. Enquire as to relevant best practice security/fire arrangements using the services of a qualified Consultant.
9. In the event of an intrusion:
Try to run away if possible Remain calm, cooperate where required. Your life is more important than property.

Vehicle Security

VEHICLE SECURITY

Travelling in your car can be the highest Risk activity you are involved in. Whilst driving occurrences such as: car jacking, kidnap, road traffic accidents (RTA) can occur. In fact when arriving at, or leaving your property, you are at highest Risk.

The following tips can reduce this:

1. Ensure your vehicle is well serviced, therefore mechanically reliable.
2. Turn down your music system when approaching your property
3. Always be aware of your environment, so check your mirrors make sure you’re not being followed.
4. Always be alert when approaching your driveway. Be aware of any suspicious cars or people.
5. When exiting your car be aware of anything that may hide a potential carjacker.
6. Upon returning always ensure your home is well lit at night.
7. Lock all your doors and windows before setting off. If possible try not to open windows more than 5cm.

8. If a stranger approaches you while in your car, try to drive off if possible or hoot to attract attention.
9. If you notice any suspicious behaviour while driving call your security company rescue or police assistance.

Make Your business a Success

Be prepared/informed

Secure Your Business

COMMERCIAL SECURITY

Operating a successful business means protecting your assets. This includes your staff and your property. Therefore a detailed Risk  Analysis report is recommended to act as a professional guide in achieving this.

Legal requirements such as Insurance, Fire & Life safety means these measures are mandatory.

For more information arrange a Risk Assessment with one of our consultants:
  

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ANTI-TERRORISM

Kenya’s global position, her ties with western business as well as foreign policy mean we face a High-Risk of terrorist attacks.

Sectors like Embassies, Retail malls, Hotels and High profile businesses have been forced to assess the Risks facing their institutions.

Facing this situation, it is advisable to seek the advice of Security firms or Independent consultants for suitable measures. A confidential security
survey with recommendations, should provide best practice guidelines to assess terrorist threats.

Intelligence and Defense Reafirms Kenya Airforce Will Opt F-15 Fighters

An F-15C Eagle prepares to refuel mid Air

An F-15's high thrust-to-weight ratio and low wing loading let it shoot off the ground at a sharp angle.

The F-15 Strike Eagle (bottom) carries a number of air-to-ground weapons in addition to the air-to-air weapons you'll find on an F-15C

Intelligence and defense
experts in Kenya will take
F-15 fighter jets to upgrade
the current fleet of F-5
fighters.

Previous reports and
intelligence news on the
acquisition of new jets for
Kenya airforce were based on
the military assessment on
which aircraft suited them
best.
Various types of air defense
air crafts ‘(fighter jets) have
been reviewed at air force
facilities including Embakasi
and Laikipia airbase to verify
various aspects of the
operational context and the
F-15 has been the most
compatible with current KDF
control and support
resources.

The Boeing F-15 Eagle
remains world’s best
interceptor fighters and
primary air-superiority
fighter.
It is a large, light twin-
engined aircraft with high,
shoulder-mounted fixed-
geometry swept wings and
twin tails and can carry up to
16,000 pounds of bombs, fuel
tanks, and missiles
The F-15 fits KDF transition
from the F-5 platform based
on a number of factors such
as radar control and support
systems besides weather and
air defense monitoring
systems.
The F-15 will fit in an
upgraded F-5 environment
thats why various types of
upgrades have been ongoing
in Laikipia airbase and the
Wajir airbase which the KDF
will use as a second air force
main base.
The F-15 fighter jet is all
weather night and day fighter
bomber with a track record of
zero defeat and superior
avionics in comparison with
any other fighter aircraft such
as the Russian Sukhoi.
It uses the Northrop
Grumman Electronic Systems
AN/ALQ-131 electronic
countermeasures pod also
used by the F-5 fighter.

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Kenya: President Uhuru Vows to Equip Security Forces to Curb Somalia Threats

Addis Ababa, 8 March, 2014

– There is a
high threat from regional neighbours and
local terrorism in Kenya. The main threat
is from Somali militants of Al Shabaab, a
they opposed to the Somalia governments and
its allies. Somali Al Shabaab has issued public
threats against Kenyan Authorities because of
its military intervention in Southern Somali
city of Kismayo. The Kenyan Security forces
have increased security to counter potential
reprisal attacks from Somalia.
Therefore, Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta
today vowed to equip Kenyan security forces
in response to emerging challenges such as
terrorism.
Uhuru, who addressed Kenyan cabinet and
principal secretaries during the ongoing
retreat in Nanyuki, said his government has
embarked on a modernization of all its
security agencies to cope with emerging
security threats.
“For a long time, the security sector has not
been given the attention it deserves. We are
changing that,” the president said.
The East African nation faces security
challenges related to resurgence of militias in
the coastal region and war against Al- Qaida
linked Al-Shabaab in Somalia.
President Kenyatta said more resources will be
allocated to the Kenya Defense Forces and the
National Police Service to enable them to
carry out their mandate more effectively.
He listed steps taken to boost security
including the training of officers, the purchase
of modern equipment, the leasing of vehicles
to boost mobility and the construction of new
houses for officers.
Defense Cabinet Secretary Raychelle Omamo
welcomed the president’s assurance of a
larger allocation of resources to the KDF.
Omamo said the move would enable the KDF
to better play its role in defending and
protecting the country’s sovereignty and
territorial integrity.
She said the increased allocation would make
KDF more efficient in its cooperation with
other authorities in situations of emergency
and disaster anywhere in the country.
She also commended the KDF for its
exemplary peacekeeping performance, both
regionally and globally.
According to the 2013 military ranking, the
Kenyan defense forces is sixth in Africa after
Egypt, Ethiopia, South Africa, Nigeria and
Algeria; and 46th in the world.

(Sources Xinhua News Agency and HAN)

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China says can't confirm satellite images connected to missing plane

Tribune staff and wire reports

KUALA LUMPUR— Search planes were
flying on Thursday to an area where a
Chinese satellite has seen objects that could
be debris from the Malaysian airliner
missing for almost six days, but those
waters had been checked before and nothing
found, officials said.
At the same time, China heaped pressure on
Malaysia to improve its coordination over
the search for the Malaysia Airlines plane,
which disappeared early on Saturday on a
flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing. Of the
239 people on board, up to 154 were
Chinese.
Premier Li Keqiang, speaking at a news
conference in Beijing, demanded that the
"relevant party" step up coordination while
China's civil aviation chief said he wanted a
"smoother" flow of information from
Malaysia, which has come under heavy
criticism for its handling of the disaster.
Vietnamese and Malaysian planes would
scan waters where a Chinese government
agency website said a satellite had
photographed three "suspicious floating
objects" on Sunday. The location was close
to where the plane lost contact with air
traffic control.

"We are aware and we sent planes to cover
that area over the past three days,"
Vietnamese Deputy Transport Minister Pham
Quy Tieu told Reuters. "Today a CASA plane
will search the area again," he said,
referring to a twin-turboprop military
aircraft.
Malaysian Transport Minister
Hishammuddin Hussein said on his Twitter
feed: "Malaysia Maritime Enforcement
Agency Bombardier has already been
dispatched to investigate alleged claims of
debris being found by Chinese satellite
imagery."
China's civil aviation chief, Li Jiaxiang, said
there was no proof that the objects in the
South China Sea were connected to the
missing aircraft.
One U.S. official close to the plane
investigation also said the Chinese satellite
report was a "red herring."
It was the latest in scores of often confusing
leads for a multi-national search team that
has been combing 27,000 square nautical
miles, an area the size of Hungary, for the
Boeing 777-200ER.
On Wednesday, Malaysia's air force chief
said military radar had traced what could
have been the jetliner to an area south of
the Thai holiday island of Phuket, hundreds
of miles to the west of its last known
position.
His statement followed a series of
conflicting accounts of the flight path of the
plane, which left authorities uncertain even
which ocean to search in for Flight MH370.
The last definitive sighting on civilian radar
screens came shortly before 1:30 a.m. on
Saturday, less than an hour after the plane
took off from Kuala Lumpur, as it flew
northeast across the mouth of the Gulf of
Thailand.
What happened next remains one of the
most baffling mysteries in modern aviation
history and the differing accounts put out
by various Malaysian officials have drawn
criticism of their handling of the crisis.
"The Malaysians deserve to be criticized -
their handling of this has been atrocious,"
said Ernest Bower, a Southeast Asia
specialist at the Center for Strategic and
International Studies in Washington.
Rodzali Daud, the Malaysian air force chief,
told a news conference on Wednesday that
an aircraft was plotted on military radar at
2:15 a.m., 200 miles northwest of Penang
Island off Malaysia's west coast at the
northern tip of the Strait of Malacca.
But there has been no confirmation that the
unidentified plane was Flight MH370,
Rodzali said, and Malaysia was sharing the
data with international civilian and
military authorities, including those from
the United States.
"We are corroborating this," he added. "We
are still working with the experts."
AGONISING WAIT
According to the data cited by Rodzali, if
the radar had spotted the missing plane, the
aircraft would have flown for 45 minutes
and dropped only about 5,000 feet in
altitude since its sighting on civilian radar
in the Gulf of Thailand.
There was no word on which direction it
was then headed, but if this sighting was
correct, the plane would have turned
sharply west from its original course,
travelling hundreds of miles over the Malay
Peninsula from the Gulf of Thailand to the
Andaman Sea.
-Reuters

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DPP, IG want media barred from Hemed case

The Director of Public Prosecutions
Keriako Tobiko and Inspector General of
Police David Kimaiyo want the case on
the missing suspect Mr Hemed Salim
Hemed be heard in private.
The two have have filed an application
seeking media and members of the public
be barred from a habeas corpus
proceedings on the whereabouts of Mr
Hemed.
Mr Hemed was arrested last month during
the Masjid Musa mosque police raid but
he was later declared missing.
In their application before Justice Edward
Muriithi, Mr Tobiko and Mr Kimaiyo, listed
as first and second respondents
respectively, argued that the media is
being insensitive in their reporting of the
proceeding.
Through senior principal prosecution
counsel Mr Alexander Muteti, the two
respondents further submitted that the
media coverage has endangered the lives
of deputy Mombasa DCIO Inspector Evans
Wesonga and police constable Owino
Okuto.
The two officers have been in the dock
testifying over Mr Hemed’s
disappearance.
Mr Muteti told Justice Muriithi that
photographs of the two officers posted by
unknown person have been circulating on
social media, thereby endangering their
lives.
“It is hard to test who is posting these
images and for what purpose it is serving.
We are not asking this court to limit the
rights of habeas corpus. We are asking
for the limitation of the freedom of
expression. Let the court limit what the
public is doing in a court of law,” he
added.
(Read More at Daily Nation)

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Sex Trafficking in Hotels-Does Your Team Know the Signs?

Sex Trafficking in Hotels – Does your team know the signs?

We were moved by some research we read about this issue and its presence in our industry.  While we don’t turn a blind eye to the issue, we don’t think about it as much as we should.  Here, the US hospitality liaison from ECPAT, an international organization focused on ending child sex trafficking, brings us some insight on the issue and how we, as hoteliers, can take a proactive role to address it in our industry.

[By Michelle Guelbart, MSW, Private Sector Project Coordinator, ECPAT-USA]

Front-desk employees might not think twice when checking in a young female guest whose partner is holding her identification and wallet for her.

A housekeeper may carry on with their work while passing by the room that has had a do not disturb sign hanging from the door all week.

A restaurant employee might go about their daily duties when a guest comes into the bar a few times, entertaining different individuals each time, during their stay in a new city.

What these employees might not consider is that these might not be their typical guests; they could be victims of the sex trafficking trade.

A Global Issue

President Obama has referred to human trafficking as “modern day slavery” because victims are forced into labor or sexual servitude through violence, debt bondage, and/or coercion.  The International Labor Organization now estimates that there are nearly 21 million human trafficking victims globally.

At any given time, there are as many as 4.5 million trafficking victims sold in the sex trade and nearly 1 million of those victims are children. Pimping and trafficking is becoming a preferred method for illegitimate crime because children can be sold repeatedly while drugs can only be used once.
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In our Backyard

This global issue was famously brought to the public’s attention with the 2009 movie “Taken” starring Liam Neeson.  Contrary to popular belief, the United States is not immune to child sex trafficking. Current studies estimate that at least 100,000 children are in the sex trade in the United States- and another 200,000-300,000 children are at risk per year. The victims are male and female and come from all socioeconomic status, though runaways, throwaways and foster care children are more likely to be targeted for recruitment by traffickers.

With the growth of technology, traffickers are moving their business off the streets and onto the Internet. The same websites that are used to sell furniture and appliances have sections where pimps are selling their victims. A trafficker may check into a hotel, unbeknownst to employees, and run their operations out of rooms or use other hotel rooms to meet with “buyers.” Standard hospitality training does not sensitize employees to the issue of sex trafficking in hotels and because of this, traffickers believe hotels are anonymous and low-risk.
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The Code

The travel industry, and especially the hospitality sector, is stepping up to mitigate child sex trafficking. Companies like Hilton Worldwide, Carlson Companies, Wyndham Worldwide and Accor are among those international leaders who have already signed the The Code - Tourism Child-Protection Code of Conduct. The Code is a set of six guidelines travel companies implement to put in place policies and programs to comprehensively and effectively address this issue.

These companies have partnered with ECPAT to implement The Code. ECPAT is a global organization with a mission to protect children from all forms of commercial sexual exploitation including trafficking.

Members of The Code create ethical policies that publicly state their repudiation for the practice. They routinely add clauses into their contracts that ask their suppliers and partners to do the same. Importantly, signers of The Code provide training to employees so they know how to identify and appropriately react to suspicions of child sex trafficking.

Companies that proactively address child sex trafficking experience an array of foreseen and unforeseen benefits. All have seen improvement in company morale

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The World Military Rankings, where does Kenya lie?

Global Firepower provides a unique analytical display of data concerning today's world military powers.
Sixty-eight countries are currently considered for the ranking which allows for a broad spectrum
concerning comparison of relative military strengths. The user should note that nuclear capability is not
taken into account as the inclusion of such weapons would defeat the purpose of such comparisons - the
GFP ranking is based strictly on each nation's potential conventional war-making capabilities across land,
sea and air while incorporating values related to logistical, financial and geographical positions. Sources
are stated when possible but it must be understood that some statistics have to be estimated when
official numbers are not publicly available.
The final GFP ranking is based on a formula utilizing over forty different factors to which these are
compiled and measured against each included nation. Bonuses (ex: low oil consumption) and penalties
(ex: high oil consumption, border/coastline coverage) are then applied to refine the list, generating the
GFP "Power Index" value ("PwrIndx"). It is this value that provides the final overall GFP ranking.