The Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (ODPP)
Prosecutors and the DCI Anti-Human Trafficking and Child Protection Unit (AHTCPU) through support from Lawyers Without Borders (LWOB), underwent a two-day training session aimed at addressing the challenges and opportunities that come with presenting electronic and digital evidence in court proceedings.
The session focused on child justice and the use of the child friendly interview room, an ODPP pioneering initiative aimed at facilitating child friendly interviews using technology to pre-record evidence of child victims, thereby minimizing revictimization and retraumatization of child victims.
The team was also taken through the concept of Team Synergy, psychological safety in interagency collaboration as well as how to build effective teams in diverse and stressful situations.
Mr. Alloys Kemo is the Deputy Director in the Department of Prosecution Training Institute (PTI). Mr. Kemo is an Advocate of the High Court of Kenya and was admitted to the bar on 1995. He holds a Master’s of Science in Leadership & Governance from Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology (JKUAT) , LLB Degree from Nagpur University, and a postgraduate diploma in Law from the Kenya School of Law.
Mr. Kemo has previously served as a Regional Head, Coast Region between 2019 to 2021 before heading to Rift Valley as a Regional head. He has also served as a deputy head in the Department of offences against the person and Head of the Penal Code Offences Division between 2013 to 2018 at the Office of the Direction of Public Prosecutions.
He has also been a member of several committees that developed key prosecution policies and guidelines such as; the ODPP Act of 2012, National Prosecution guidelines, the Diversion policy, Diversion guidelines, the Plea bargain guidelines and The Decision to Charge guidelines amongst others. He also attended several prosecution courses in various thematic areas and in management and in Leadership.
Mr. Kemo has vast experience electoral Justice and lead the ODPP Election Offences Prosecution Team in the 2017 National General Elections and also the ODPP Election Preparedness Committee in the 2022 National General Elections. He is a trainer and has facilitated external trainings and also internal training for ODPP staff.