‘Arms for mobility’: policing partnerships and material exchanges in Nairobi, Kenya

This paper analyses two policing arrangements between the state police and several private security companies in Nairobi, Kenya. These arrangements entail that police officers team up together with security officers in their company vehicles. As private security officers are unarmed in Kenya by law,...

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Main Author: Diphoorn, Tessa G. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
Published: [2020]
In: Policing and society
Year: 2020, Volume: 30, Issue: 2, Pages: 136-152
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Keywords:
Firearm
Kenya
Policing
materialities

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