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Name: JENKINS, Trevor Westover QPM, CPM
Birth Date: 24.12.1914 Tulse Hill, London
Death Date: 2002 Deben, Suffolk
First Date: 1935
Last Date: 1953
Profession: Asst. Inspector, Kenya Police in 1939, appointed 1936. Originally 2nd Grade Asst. Insp. 1935. Senior Super in 1953 - later A.C.P. Dir. Intell. & Security 1952-53; Dep. Commissioner Police Nigeria 1956-60
Area: Lumbwa 1939, Nairobi
Book Reference: Staff 39, Staff 53, Colonial, OP, Nicholls, Foster
School: St. Peters School, York
General Information:
OP - Issue 84, October 2002 - Obituary - T.W. Jenkins, QPM, CPM - Kenya, Gold Coast, Nigeria
Nicholls - Trevor W. Jenkins, an inspector and therefore only a second-class official, was invited by his squash partner, the private secretary to the Governor, to have an after-game drink in the long bar of the Nairobi Club. The following day he was marched before his superior to receive an official rebuke. Settlers tended to treat such white policemen as at their beck and call, for however trivial a matter.
1939 England and Wales Register living in Lewisham, single
Charles Chenevix Trench, Men Who Ruled Kenya, 1993 In 1952 he became Director of Intelligence and Security. He had experience of sophisticated African politicians because of a secondment to the Gold Coast. He immediately started a detailed investigation into KAU, KISA, Mau Mau, the links between them and Kenyatta's role in all three, and produced a report on 30 April. Corfield said it was a first-class document but the most interesting thing about it was what did not happen to it. No copy was sent to Government House until 12th August. The omission to send a copy to the Governor defies explanation and the CNC's failure to send copies to PCs before 25 September was extraordinary.