Interior Cabinet Secretary Kithure Kindiki on Wednesday October 11th said that Police Officers who have served in one police post in three years must be transferred with immediate effect. Failure to which the government will stop their salaries.
Speaking at the Senate Chambers, Kindiki said that the National Police Service has a maximum of 60 days to formalise the directive.
“The directive by the government is that any officer after the 60 days who continues to resist or for whatever reason does not move to a different station, the salary will be stopped. It is that serious.”
The CS said that there has been a policy that prevents officers from serving at one station for a long time but it has been ignored for a long time and its time that these changes take effect for the betterment of the police service.
Therefore any officer that fails to report to duty in a new station after the National Police Service has facilitated the transfer will most probably not receive his/her salary.
Kindiki said that the changes should be made immediately and the National Police Service received the guidelines of the directive two weeks ago to act on it. “It’s a serious directive” he said.
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Special assignment officers will be given an year-long maximum provision of service at a single station before facilitating a transfer.
“For those doing serious operations, normally we move them within one year because of the kinetic and demanding nature of the operations they are involved in”
An x user, @wmnjoya however noted with concern saying that numerous transfers is the leading cause of brutality. This is because police officers don’t get a chance to create bonds with the community. Due to constant relocation across the country, they don’t get human connections.
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