CBM mandate in KRA is currently hosted in Customs & Border Control Department. The following are among the roles undertaken by the Department to enhance coordination among border agencies:-

• Trade Facilitation – Automated customs systems e.g. Integrated Customs Management System (ICMS), Regional Electronic Cargo Tracking (RECTS), Baggage and Cargo Scanners, K9 among others.


• Protection of Society – Ensuring that contraband goods like electronics, medicines, clothes and Pornographic materials which compromise the health and safety of the society as well as domestic industries are not imported into the country


• Compilation of Trade Statistics-This is relevant to the Government to enable establishment of strong Fiscal and Monetary policies.


• Chair Border Management Committees(BMC) in all Land borders


• Lead Agency in One Stop Border Post(OSBP) and all land borders


• Coordinate acquisition of land under the BCOCC framework and establishment of new Ports entry/exit eg. Konyao(west Pokot) Lomokori (Turkana)


• Chair Joint Border Operation Committees(JBOC) in OSBPs


• Spear head border integrity programs to prevent detect and deter corruption in ports of entry/exit


• Joint enforcement activities like Patrols, verification of cargo, Rummaging of aircrafts and buses and Destruction of Seized goods.