Kenyan Police and the Emergency


This picture shows Kenyan askaris with a Sikh officer at Kisumu in Kenya, 1953. The Emergency was declared in 1952 and saw a doubling in the size of the police and an infusion of thousands of British and Commonwealth soldiers into the colony.


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