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Not sure I agree with you 100% on your police work, there: Kenyan police fail to find own officer
for 9 months, when he was in a coma in hospital after a road accident:
Neither the family nor the police force had any idea where Constable Reuben Kimutai Lel was - his niece told the BBC they thought he was dead.
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The police officer was admitted on 21 December 2020 as an unknown person at the main referral hospital in the capital, Nairobi. He had no identity documents with him.
Meanwhile, he was sacked from his job, charged in absentia with desertion and a warrant was issued for his arrest. The case was later withdrawn after police failed to find him.
He regained consciousness last week, and although he has still not regained his full memory, he was able to identify himself by name and that he was a police officer - and so the search for his relatives began.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-58681463
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The police officer was admitted on 21 December 2020 as an unknown person at the main referral hospital in the capital, Nairobi. He had no identity documents with him.
Meanwhile, he was sacked from his job, charged in absentia with desertion and a warrant was issued for his arrest. The case was later withdrawn after police failed to find him.
He regained consciousness last week, and although he has still not regained his full memory, he was able to identify himself by name and that he was a police officer - and so the search for his relatives began.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-58681463
I mean, don't they watch TV cop shows? Checking the hospitals is one of the first things in the script.