In a daring incident caught on CCTV cameras on Monday, a man on a motorbike snatched a police officer’s phone at a Shell Petrol Station along the busy Kangundo Road at around 10:09am.
In the 45-second footage shared on social media by Muktar Maalim, the officer in full police uniform is seen busy engaged on his mobile phone but did not know that a man on motorbike was timing him. The rider, who posed as a boda boda operator waiting for a client a few metres away, approached and snatched the gadget before speeding off.
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The shocked officer attempts to give a chase on foot before another rider appears and offers him a ride. It’s, however, not clear if the officer managed to recover the phone.
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The incident comes barely two months after The National Police Service came out to rubbish a video that went viral showing a traffic cop being robbed of his phone in a similar manner while controlling traffic at the Roysambu roundabout on Thika Road. The police said that the video was “doctored"
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