Authors : Mwiti Gitonga Mberia; Dr. Kibet A. Ngetich; Dr. Samwel Auya

Volume/Issue : Volume 9 - 2024, Issue 9 - September

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DOI : https://doi.org/10.38124/ijisrt/IJISRT24SEP295

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Abstract : Gender-based violence (GBV) is a widespread worldwide problem that has negative effects on one's physical, mental, and financial well-being. Effective management of GBV cases by police officers is critical in ensuring justice, protection, and support for survivors. This study explores the factors that influence police officers' management of GBV cases in the context of Dagoretti North Sub-County, Nairobi County, Kenya. Police officers’ duties entails preventing GBV from happening and from happening again, recording cases of GBV, gathering and storing evidence, looking into cases of GBV, catching offenders, and safeguarding survivors and witnesses, referring survivors, and collaborating with the DPP’s Office to ensure the expeditious prosecution of perpetrators. The primary goal of the study was to find out what influences how Dagoretti North Sub-County police officers handle situations involving gender-based violence. The study's particular goals are to examine how working conditions, legal framework, training, and development on management of GBV cases in Dagoretti North Sub-County police stations in Nairobi. Institutional and contingency theories served as the study’s theoretical pillars. The study used a descriptive research design, with the police officers serving as the units of analysis. Sample size of 77 respondents, were used and selected through the stratified random sample. a questionnaire served as the study’s main method for gathering data that was analyzed with SPSS- 26. The data was analyzed using descriptive statistics, and presented in tables. The findings showed that working conditions, legal framework and training and development account for the variation in management of GBV cases. According to the results, legal framework was the predictor objective that most significantly influenced the management of GBV cases, followed by working conditions, and then training and development, which had the least influence on the management of GBV cases.

Keywords : Gender-Based Violence, Management of Gender Based Violence Cases, Working Conditions, Legal Framework, Training and Development.

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