Inspector-General of Police Hillary Mutyambai has said 2,000 police officers are mentally unfit to serve in the police service.
While addressing the Anglican Bishops and Senior Clergy in Westlands, the IG stated that the cases were discovered after a thorough medical examination conducted on all police officers across the country.
“We have subjected all the officers [to medical examination], and to our surprise, we got a big number [of mentally-disturbed police officers]. We isolated almost 2,000 police officers who are unfit to do their law enforcement work,” he stated.
Mutyambai mentioned that it was not easy to sack someone who you had given a job but some officers had started counseling sessions.
“The Police Service has now started the process of managing some of them. To remove someone from work because of medical grounds is not easy. The government has its processes,” he said..
The IG further stated that the investigations revealed a pattern of some police officers absconding from duty by claiming illness.
Mutyambai attributed the rise in cases to a number of issues, including recruitment corruption and a lack of social support.
