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The government is set to raise entry grades for police recruits in Kenya under new reforms being undertaken by the National Police Service (NPS).
The changes are aimed at injecting highly-skilled manpower into the Kenyan police service and bring to life the much-needed police reforms, according to Interior Principal Secretary Dr. Karanja Kibicho.
Kibicho, who spoke during an interview with a local radio station on Friday, said the next police recruitment will be guided by the new regulations.
In the first phase of the recruitment, 5,000 university graduates will be enlisted to the police service, representing 50 percent of the total number of recruits.
“Modalities have already been put in place to change the service from being the place where parents take their children who have failed in national examinations,” said Kibicho.
“In the next recruitment, half of the recruits shall be cadets. We must move to change our recruitment procedure and the training curriculum in order to conform to international standards.”
The new reforms are part of the changes proposed by former Inspector-General of Police Joseph Boinnet.
Presently, the minimum entry grade to the service is D+ (plus) in the Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education (KCSE), which some argue is the root cause of extra-judicial killings in Kenya.
A report by Independent Policing Oversight Authority (IPOA) revealed that 15 people have been killed and 31 others injured by police officers enforcing the dusk-to-dawn curfew. The curfew is among a raft of measures put in place by the government to combat the spread of Covid-19.
Very few parents would let their graduate children to join the Kenya police force. It is a lotten crop. majority of these ppl die before 70 years. Why? Me think because of their ways of living and the dirt in their hands. Innocent blood is spilt freely by these pple. Shame on these failures.