Hard working police officers will get better pay irrespective of
their rank, while indisciplined ones will not get salary increments for
up to a year.
These are part of new proposals by the National Police Service Commission designed to govern discipline among the officers.
Serious misconduct like corruption and engaging in crime would be punished by dismissal from service and prosecution.
The commission says it will adopt a human resource development mechanisms and processes dubbed ‘horizontal career development’.
“Horizontal
career development shall include a non-promotion reward scheme, where a
member of the service is offered higher financial incentives and other
career development opportunities and rewards irrespective of whether the
member is promoted or not,” according to the document.
This would be done in the event there is no vacancy available for promotion of an officer who has served exceptionally well.
The
new proposals, aimed at changing how police are governed in Kenya, have
been published by the Commission on Implementation of the Constitution.
They are contained in five drafts and CIC has invited the public to scrutinise them before they are formally adopted.
EXAMS
They also seek to guide on promotions, recruitment, transfers, demotions and retirements.
It
introduces a scheme of service and says officers who also fail
promotional exams or fail to sit for the tests would be sent home, one
of the drafts recommends.
The proposals also seek to
reverse a decades-old culture in the police service in which senior
police officers punished their juniors by transferring them to hardship
areas as the favoured ones are handed lucrative postings, with higher
allowances.
“A transfer shall not be used as a disciplinary measure or as a reward,” the proposals state.
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