The government will this year recruit at least 10,000 police officers, Interior Principal Secretary PS Raymond Omollo has said.
He said the national assembly allocated a budget for 5,000 police recruits, but the ministry will engage MPs to increase it to enable the government to double the number of recruits. "We are trying to plead with MPs.
We will work with government officials and elected leaders so that more young people are recruited to the police service," PS Omollo said.
The government has not conducted police recruitment for the last three years despite increased security challenges and the deployment of Kenyan officers to conflict-torn countries like Haiti.
