In the past two years, there has been a significant improvement in wildlife crime trial duration time in a few courts of which JKIA court is one. The JKIA court has now handed down 4 convictions in prosecutions that lasted 8 months, 13 months, 16 months and 22 months.   All four cases came through the KWTF which may have factored in the efficient manner in which they were handled. 

Note: In July 2021, the DCI and international NGO, Focused Conservation, entered into a partnership to combat wildlife crime in Kenya through collaborative investigations, arrests and prosecutions. Focused Conservation, led by retired Drug Enforcement Agency, Special Agent William Brown, brought into the mix a team of highly experienced advisors, mentors, trainers, and analysts with extensive international law enforcement experience.  The unit was known as the Kenya Wildlife Task Force (KWTF). The task force later included the Kenya Wildlife Service.

In October 2024, the unit was disbanded, ostensibly for lack of funding. The KWTF enjoyed success with significant arrests in both sandalwood and ivory operations. Just as importantly, it added an integrity component to the investigations and prosecutions of wildlife crime within Kenya. The disbandment came at an unfortunate time, a time when within Kenya, the number of ivory seizures are slowly climbing and particularly in the coastal region.

Focused Conservation presently maintains similar high-level units in Uganda and Nigeria.