CAP. 84 National Police Service [Rev. 2012] (2) For the avoidance of doubt, the rights and fundamental freedoms specified under Article 24 (5) of the Constitution, with regard to persons serving in the Service, are limited to the nature and extent specified in this Act or any other written law. (3) A Police officer who contravenes this section shall be dismissed from the Service and shall forfeit all rights to any pension or gratuity. 94. Desertion (1) A police officer who absents himself from duty without leave or just cause for a period exceeding twenty-one days shall, unless the contrary is proved, be considered to have deserted from the Service. (2) Upon reasonable suspicion that any police officer has deserted the Service, any police officer may arrest that officer without a warrant, and shall thereupon take him before a magistrate having jurisdiction in the area in which such person deserted or was arrested. (3) Any police officer who deserts from the Service commits an offence and is liable on conviction to summary dismissal or imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years or to a fine not exceeding one hundred thousand shillings. 95. Prohibition against torture or cruel treatment (1) It shall be unlawful for a police officer to subject any person to torture or other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment. (2) A police officer who subjects a person to torture commits a criminal offence and shall be liable on conviction to imprisonment for a term not exceeding twenty five years. (3) A police officer who subjects a person to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment commits a criminal offence and is liable on conviction to imprisonment for a term not exceeding fifteen years. PART XI – COMMUNITY POLICING FORUMS AND COMMITTEES 96. Objects of community policing (1) The Service shall, in order to achieve the objects contemplated in Article 244 of the Constitution, liaise with communities through community policing initiatives, with a view to— (a) establishing and maintaining partnership between the community and the Service; (b) promoting communication between the Service and the community; (c) promoting co-operation between the Service and the community in fulfilling the needs of the community regarding policing; (d) improving the rendering of police services to the community at national, county and local levels; (e) improving transparency in the Service and accountability of the Service to the community; and (f) promoting policing problem identification and policing problem-solving by the Service and the community. [Issue 1] N18 - 46