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LAWS OF KENYA
PRESERVATION OF PUBLIC SECURITY ACT
THE PUBLIC SECURITY (DETAINED AND RESTRICTED PERSONS) RULES
LEGAL NOTICE 235 OF 1978
- Published in Kenya Gazette Vol. LXXX—No. 45 on 10 November 1978
- Commenced on 17 October 1978
- [Revised by 24th Annual Supplement (Legal Notice 221 of 2023) on 31 December 2022]
Part I – PRELIMINARY
1. Citation
These Rules may be cited as the Public Security (Detained and Restricted Persons) Rules and shall be deemed to have come into operation on the 17th October, 1978.2. Interpretation
Part II – APPOINTMENT AND DUTIES OF CAMP STAFF
3. Responsibility of Commissioner
The Commissioner shall be responsible for the general control and administration of all places of detention and for ensuring that these Rules are complied with in regard thereto.4. Appointment and general duties of officers in charge
5. Particular duties of officer in charge
It shall be the particular duty of the officer in charge—6. Detention officers
Part III – GENERAL PROVISIONS RESPECTING PLACES OF DETENTION
7. Work
8. Prevention of disease
A medical officer may take, or order the taking of, such steps, including the compulsory inoculation or vaccination of detained persons, as he considers necessary to avoid the spread of any disease or infection in or from any place of detention.9. Visit by ministers of religion
Ministers of religion shall be admitted to the place of detention at proper and reasonable times to visit detained persons who wish to see them, at such hours and at such places as the officer in charge may allow, in the sight and hearing of a detention officer.10. Visits by police officers
A police officer may, with the approval of the officer in charge and on production of an order in writing from a police officer not below the rank of Sub-Inspector, visit a detained person in the sight and hearing of a detention officer.11. Access to camps
Subject to rules 9 and 10 of these Rules no person shall be permitted to enter or be within the limits of any place of detention except detained persons, detention officers and those persons (hereinafter referred to as visitors) who have been authorized in writing by the Commissioner or by the officer in charge to enter.12. Visitors
13. Penalty for possession by visitor of certain things
14. Articles for personal use
15. Books and papers
16. Prohibited articles
Save as is otherwise provided by these Rules, no detained person shall at any time be in possession of any weapon, spirituous liquor, or intoxicating or poisonous drug, or any unauthorized letter, food, clothing or other article.17. Letters
Subject to rule 24 of these Rules, detained persons may receive and send letters at the discretion of the officer in charge.18. Censorship and withholding of letters
19. Classes and library
Every detained person who is not undergoing punishment shall be entitled to attend such school classes as may be organized by the officer in charge for the place of detention in which he is, and to make use of any library established in the place of detention by the officer in charge in accordance with such library rules as the officer in charge may make.20. Rules for management of places of detention
The following rules shall apply for the regulation of the management of places of detention—21. Communication with detained persons
22. Use of force
23. Use of weapons
A detention officer may use any weapons which have been issued to him, including firearms, against a detained person if the detained person—24. Rations
The officer in charge shall issue rations to detained persons in his place of detention in accordance with the scales for the time being in force under the Prisons Rules (Cap. 90, Sub. Leg).25. Rights of a detained person
Part IV – PUNISHMENT FOR OFFENCES
26. Punishment for minor offences
The officer in charge of a place of detention may punish any detained person therein who is found after due inquiry by him to be guilty of a minor offence by ordering such person to undergo one or more of the following punishments—27. Punishment for major offences
The officer in charge of a place of detention may punish any detained person therein who is found after due inquiry by him to be guilty of a major offence by ordering such person to undergo one or more of the following punishments—28. Record of inquiries and punishments
The officer in charge shall keep a record of all inquiries made by him, and of all punishments ordered by him, under this Part.29. Punishments for second and subsequent major offences
Any detained person who, having been punished for a major offence, commits another major offence, shall be guilty of an offence and liable, on conviction by a court, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years.History of this document
31 December 2022 this version
Revised by
24th Annual Supplement
10 November 1978
17 October 1978
Commenced