1. If you’re involved in a traffic accident you will need an Accident Abstract
Immediately after an accident, you are required to report to the police station.
The report is entered into an occurrence book(OB) and the OB Number is given to you.
The abstract will be produced in court as evidence.
The police abstract will show:
1. The date of the accident. the place where the accident took place.
2. Witnesses
3. The registration number of the motor vehicles involved.
4. The insurance company and policy numbers of the motor vehicles.
5. The names of the parties involved.
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2. If you lose your Identity Card
This is the most common reason that Kenyans go out to look for a police abstract.
You may have lost your ID accidentally or by some other mechanism.
However, as the situation always demands, you are safe when you quickly report the loss of your identification card.
There have been reported cases where the owners of identity cards have had to answer several questions as their documents were found in some criminal sites.
In any case, it is a legal requirement that you produce a filled police abstract form for loss of ID right before you can renew your lost identification card.
3. If you lose your Driving License
When someone loses the most important document as far as driving is concerned, then you’re required by law to obtain a police abstract.
Without a license, it is virtually impossible to drive in any law-abiding country.
This only shows you how important the abstract is. You can indeed drive for a few more days if you had the abstract rather than if you didn’t.
However, nothing can ever replace your license but you can save yourself from a little inconvenience.
4. Loss of Household Goods
People lose similar properties every day. For a reason or the other, some people do not know that that you can actually pick an abstract form for loss of any property.
Police officers need to know the particular individual to contact in case some property is recovered.
It will be difficult for anybody including the police to identify some recovered property as belonging to you if you didn’t present a police abstract.
Even the courts of law can only rule in your favor if you have properly documented your loss of property with the police.
You should indeed pick it for anything that can be recovered by authorities however long the recovery process takes.
The Officer Commanding Police Station(OCS), must sign and rubber-stamp the filled form and an official receipt issued.
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