This archive report was first published on 20 December 2019.
December 20, 2019, marked the final day of voting for the Sumuri Talino Forensic Workstation award, with the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) in the running for the prestigious honor.
The DCI's Digital Forensics Unit has been nominated alongside other law enforcement agencies from around the world, including the Elkton Police Department, Henry County Police Department, Washington Police Department, and Philadelphia Police Department.
According to the DCI, Kenya is one of only two countries whose law enforcement agency has been nominated for the award, with the rest of the nominees hailing from the United States of America.
As of December 20, 2019, the DCI was in a tight race with the Henry County Police in Georgia, who were leading with 47% of the votes, while the DCI had garnered 46%.
DCI has asked Kenyans to vote for them at https://sumuri.com/sumuri-gives-back-2019-voting/ before voting ends on Saturday December 21, 2019.
"Kindly vote for @DCI_Kenya Digital Forensics Unit for it to have a chance to receive a TALINO Forensics Workstation & an AccessData FTK Software License," the DCI tweeted on December 17, 2019.
"Click https://t.co/xM228tohbj to vote. Voting period is from December 13-20, 2019 at 11:59 PST," the tweet added.
