The origins of the Administration Police Service (APS) can be traced back to around 1902 with the enactment of the Village Headman Ordinance. The ordinance, which was enacted to enable the penetration of the native areas, was ostensibly to bring the native into the money economy, enforce tax, control livestock movement, and regulate agriculture, labor, movement of people and various other social and economic regulations.
Under 2010 Constitution Administration Police Service is established under article 243 of the constitution. The service keeps delivering sustainable growth in service deliver. To make Kenya safest place is our duty while offering protective policing. Our mission is to extend this trajectory into the future and turn Administration Police Service into a leading regional and global police service.
We continue to face new challenges while executing our duties, in the same measure we invent new way of handling emerging threats like terrorism, drug trafficking, cattle rustling, human trafficking, cybercrime any many more.
In order to overcome these challenges, the service has undergone an organizational transformation that includes initiatives such as restructuring, ICT compliance, modernization and continuous training locally and abroad these improvements enable us to become faster at identifying and addressing shifts in the operations.
We thank our Government and partners (local and international) for the continued support. We shall remain fully committed to strengthening our capabilities and to further evolving the service going forward as we are serving kenyans.
Currently the service offer protective policing after restructuring of National Police Service, which eradicated duplication of duties and hence we operate within specialized units. It is essential that we aligned our services to meet citizenry needs. Administration police service operate in the following units.