Hundreds of cases are currently being investigated by Ipoa and the Internal Affairs Unit (IAU)
Police commanders are grappling with increasing disciplinary and criminal cases involving their juniors across the country.
Apart from the hundreds of cases currently being investigated by the Independent Policing Oversight Authority (Ipoa) and the Internal Affairs Unit (IAU), at least 25 police officers have been subjected to either disciplinary proceedings or criminal investigations in the last five weeks.
At least nine police officers deserted duty and police records indicate that three of them have been arrested and arraigned in court.
Four officers who are among those were declared deserters by the Starehe police commander (OCPD) Ms Alice Kimeli three weeks ago have returned to work in unclear circumstances.
Reports indicate that even officers from other security agencies have also been implicated.
On June 2, for example, a Prisons Service warder Kelvin Mureithi was arrested in Dandora Phase 5 on allegations that he had stolen a motorcycle belonging to Mr Erick Mwenda.
EXTORTION
The officer allegedly stole the motorcycle on January 6 and disappeared until last week when the complainant saw him in Dandora. He was arrested by residents who handed him over to the police.
An Administration Police (AP) officer based at the Border Patrol Unit in Garissa was arrested in Mwiki, Nairobi, after he was found extorting money from the owners of Shankers Pub.
Police officers arrested Constable Leonard Okunda who had handcuffed Mr Dennis Munene and demanded Sh5,000 to release him.
Another police officer based at the Likoni Police Station was also arrested after he absconded duty and kept his G3 firearm in his house which was later stolen.
Constable Alexander Kipyegomen was issued with a G3 rifle loaded with 20 rounds of ammunition and assigned night duties at the reporting office.
He left the place of duty, removed his uniform, left his gun unattended and went on a drinking spree.
He came back the following day at around 7.30am but found the firearm missing.
On June 1, an AP inspector was disarmed of his Ceska pistol and then arrested after he was found drunk in Kayole-One.
DRUNK AND ARMED
Two members of the public, Mr Gerald Ondieki and Pascal Omondi, reported at Soweto Police Station that there was a man who was drunk and appeared armed.
The man was arrested and later identified as AP Inspector Edward Ndoria Gathara.
Another officer, Constable Geoffrey Ndau, who had deserted duty on September 27 last year was traced and arrested in Kayole on May 31 after absenting himself from duty for about seven months.
A warrant of arrest had been issued by the Makadara Law Court on November 30. After the arrest, he was arraigned in court the following day.
Police records also indicate that Chief Inspector William Chepkwony of Kisauni Police Division headquarters was arrested in Kayole’s Matopeni area on May 3.
He was still armed with his official firearm, a Ceska pistol serial number A050527 loaded with 14 rounds of ammunition. The senior officer had been declared a deserter on May 3.
Langata OCPD Elijah Mwangi reported the arrest of Constable James Nderitu, who was based at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA) and who had been declared a deserter
Mr Nderitu was arrested at the Langata shopping centre while in possession of fake currency totalling Sh11,000. A court had already issued a warrant of arrest against the constable.
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