Director of Criminal Investigations George Kinoti has travelled to the US to attend the much-coveted Federal Bureau Investigations (FBI) executive training.

Kinoti left the country last week for the United States where he will be at the National Executive Institute for three weeks.

The DCI boss is the only detective from Africa considered for the high-level training with the other four attendees are drawn from Canada and Australia.

At least 15 top FBI officials will take the participants through strategic leadership development and current affairs during the three-week training.

The attendees - according to NEI’s website – must be heads of departments with more than 500 sworn officers serving a population of at least 250,000.

The first two weeks of the training will be held in Washington before the attendees are taken to Glasgow for the final bit of the course.

The DCI boss is the only detective from Africa considered for the high-level training with the other four attendees are drawn from Canada and Australia.