The crackdown of ghost police officers has been launched after the National Police Inspector General Joseph Boinnet has ordered a countrywide headcount in order to get rid and arrest impostors.
The exercise also seeks to establish the number of civilian staffers working in the service.
According to People Daily, Vigilance House has finalized the manual to guide the exercise that will first be rolled out in Kiambu county.
A high-placed source privy to the matter revealed the exercise would start today.
There are fears that “ghost” officers rake in millions of shillings in salaries and allowances monthly through fake entries in the human resource files.
Furthermore some officers who have died or retired are yet to be struck out of the payroll.
An estimated 1,500 officers leave the service every year through death, retirement, desertion and resignation.
The headcount is part of the ongoing police reforms aimed at revamping the police service.
A similar exercise was ordered in 2016 by the then Deputy Inspector General Joel Kitili.
The exercise that saw tens sacked over bribery and other ethical issues did not fully address clean up to rid the force of impostors.
Anonymous says
IN THE RESOURCES RICH SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA, EXTRAJUDICIAL KILLING OF POOR AFRICAN YOUTHS WHO BECOME CRIMINALS DUE TO LACK OF ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITIES IS WORSE THAN THE EXTRAJUDICIAL KILLING OF AFRICAN AMERICANS IN THE STREETS OF AMERICAN!
POVERTY AND LACK OF ECONOMIC SURVIVAL OPPORTUNITIES ARE EXACERBATED BY THE CREATION OF SLUMS AND GHETTOS WHERE MILLIONS AND MILLIONS OF COLORED/POOR PEOPLE ARE PACKED LIKE SARDINES AND ARE CONDEMNED TO POVERTY WITHOUT ROOM TO SWING A LEG OR LAND TO GROW SURVIVAL FOOD!
GOD DID NOT CREATE SLUMS AND GHETTOS! COLONIZATION AND CAPITALISM CREATED THESE STRUCTURES INTENTIONALLY TO CONTROL AND EXPLOIT HUMANS! AFRICAN RULING ELITES HAVE MAINTAINED THESE SLUM AND GHETTO STRUCTURES FOR THE SAME PURPOSE; TO CONTROL, EXPLOIT AND DISCARD THE POOR IF THAT POPULATION BECOMES PROBLEMATIC!
IT IS DIFFICULT TO UNDERSTAND HOW A HUMAN BEING CONFINED IN A SLUM OR GHETTO CAN EARN A LIVING!
THE POOR POPULATION ARE USED, ABUSED AND DISCARDED BY THE POWERFUL ELITES OF THE WORLD!!
Anonymous says
Polish mayor stabbed in shocking on-stage attack dies in hospital Why there is no Kenyan who can treat Governors in the same way with just a knife .corrupt governors deserves a kinfe in the chest/stomach and in the heart.