After the meeting, they would emerge and delete a 27-Year piece of history by disbanding the dreaded flying squad department.
A report byThe Standard revealed among the reasons for the disbandment of the unit was rivalry between the DCI headquarters based and a newly formed Parklands based units.
Formed in July 1992 as the Anti Motor vehicle theft Unit which was an elite force that was used to combat violent crimes in Nairobi and its environs with emphasis on motor vehicle theft.
In the later years, the unit was accused of extrajudicial killing and other acts of lawlessness.
On January 1, 2020, Kinoti would release a statement informing the public of the decision to disband the unit across the country leaving the headquarter based unit alone effective the same day.
Despite the decision coming in 2020 Kinoti had expressed his dissatisfaction by the way the team was plying its trade.
In an interview with the media when he took over from his predecessor Ndegwa Muhuro, Kinoti claimed that the unit had become rouge and ineffective and needed to be reviewed.
With this, he would go on to recall some officers based out Nairobi and redeploying them to different parts of the country drawing mixed reactions from the public.
Apart from the statistics, he quoted in his statement Kinoti also had a personal grudge to settle with the unit according to the standard.
The Mombasa road publication claimed that during his time as the police spokesman and the Assistant Commissioner of Police Kinoti had a brush with the Flying squad officers from Meru.
A man whose car had been impounded by the officers sought Kinoti’s help to have it released after they demanded money from him, despite his rank and position in the police force the Meru flying squad officers did not budge from their demands.
The flying squad were replaced by a new unit, named Sting Squad Headquarters (SSH), that will be based in Nairobi and will operate in areas that often experience armed crimes.
The DCI also scaled down the Special Crime Prevention Unit (SCPU) and renamed it the Special Service Unit (SSU), which will be domiciled at the DCI headquarters in Nairobi.