Interior Cabinet Secretary Kithure Kindiki announced on Tuesday, March 12, the new deadline for the transfer of 42,500 police officers.
Addressing the press in Nakuru County, Kindiki stated that the over 42,000 police officers who have overstayed at their stations would be transferred by Wednesday, March 20.
“The 42,5000 police officers will be transferred by Wednesday next week by all means possible and nobody will be left out," Kindiki remarked.
“So we are going to effect the transfer policy without fail. Some of the officers involved in the law enforcement are conflicted,” the CS added.
Kindiki noted that most of the police officers who had overstayed at their duty stations exhibited partial adherence to the law, and their activities were often tainted by conflicts of interest.
The CS reassured stakeholders that the Ministry of Interior would proceed with implementing the changes, which are part of a series of radical decisions aimed at enhancing service delivery within the National Police Service.
"They have even married local girls, and they have opened butcheries and bars, you do not know whether somebody is a police officer or a villager," Kindiki noted.
While commending the heads of security in Nakuru County, Kindiki put on notice criminal gangs causing terror among the residents.
The CS vowed to deal with the criminal gangs noting that strategic measures had been put in place to curb a resurgence of such terror groups.
"We have agreed on a strategy, it is just a matter of days and weeks you will hear no more of this gang because what they are doing is no more from what other organised criminal gangs are doing," Kindiki stated.
The latest announcement by the Interior CS comes barely a fortnight after the CS ordered the deployment of a special security team in Kisii to deal with gangs terrorising residents.
Kindiki tasked the special team with investigating and holding accountable the organisers, financiers, and perpetrators of criminal incidents recently witnessed in some parts of the county.
