Cellphones Used to Track Down Crooks in Kenya

Police in Kenya have been exploiting cell phone technology to solve high-profile murder and robbery cases, reports MobileAfrica.

"Police and prosecutors are increasingly relying on call records from mobile telephone operators Safaricom and Celtel to pick out suspects during investigations and link them to crimes.

Among the high-profile cases police have solved using the technology are the sensational kidnapping of tycoon Abdul Karim Popat and 15-year old Manik Gokals; tracing of police killer Daniel Kiptum Cheruiyot to his hideout; killing of land dealer Lawrence Githinji Magondu; and a Sh4 million robbery at the Bank of India in Westlands, Nairobi.

The cellphone was crucial to investigations into the killing of Mombasa Port CID chief Hassan Ahmed Abdillahi."

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