Matiang'i Issues Orders on Relationships Between Police Officers

Interior CS Fred Matiang'i with ministry officials engaged in a virtual meeting with MPs on March 24, 2021
Interior CS Fred Matiang'i with ministry officials engaged in a virtual meeting with MPs on March 24, 2021
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Interior Cabinet Secretary Fred Matiang'i has announced that the Ministry will develop new rules banning police officers from having intimate relations with their colleagues.

Speaking during the opening ceremony of the direct entry cadet inspectors course at the National Police College Kiganjo Campus, Nyeri, Matiang'i explained that the directive would be developed to curb sexual harassment and indiscipline cases that were on the rise in the police force.

"You are officers, we don’t expect you to leave here and go have affairs with constables who you are managing, when it gets to that level one of you has to leave," he stated on Friday, April 30.

Interior CS Fred Matiang'i arrives in Nyeri County for the official opening ceremony of the direct entry cadet inspectors course at the National Police College Kiganjo Campus on Friday, April 30, 2021.
Interior CS Fred Matiang'i in Nyeri County for the official opening ceremony of the direct entry cadet inspectors course at the National Police College Kiganjo Campus on Friday, April 30, 2021.
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His sentiments come after a recent incident that saw an officer attached to the VIP protection at the Ministry of Interior and Coordination of National Government shot dead his wife, a police constable, before turning the gun on himself.

Interior CS Fred Matiang'i eulogised the young couple stating that he was deeply pained by the tragic incident involving the couple.

"It's a rude awakening to psychological challenges amongst some of the young officers that we have no choice but to now paying greater attention to. My sincere condolences to their families and friends," he stated.

Hudson Wakise was reported to have shot his wife Pauline Wekesa following a disagreement over alleged infidelity in their marriage.

Autopsy results revealed that Pauline was shot seven times, three bullets on her chest and four on her arm. Injuries on her arm showed that there could have been a struggle before she died.

The two had contrasting funerals with Wekesa being accorded the full burial rites of an officer in Kakamega, while Hudson was laid to rest days later in a quiet ceremony in his home county of Taita Taveta.

In January 2020, the National Police Service Commission (NPSC) released a report revealing that the spike in murder and suicide cases among police officers could be linked to the limited supervision of junior officers residing outside police camps.

"Stagnation in rank, disciplinary actions arising from desertion and inadequate monitoring of junior officers leaving outside police lines are among causes of stress in officers identified," reads an excerpt of the statement.

Interior CS Fred Matiang'i in Nyeri County for the official opening ceremony of the direct entry cadet inspectors course at the National Police College Kiganjo Campus on Friday, April 30, 2021.
Interior CS Fred Matiang'i in Nyeri County for the official opening ceremony of the direct entry cadet inspectors course at the National Police College Kiganjo Campus on Friday, April 30, 2021.
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