The government has been urged to implement the pending police reforms that were proposed by previous regimes to fully empower the officers articulate their duties effectively.
Machakos deputy Governor Francis Mwangangi, said it has been overdue since all these reforms were called for but little had been done so far.
Officiating at the thanksgiving service for uniformed disciplined service officers and their families from lower Eastern region at the Machakos cathedral Catholic church, the deputy Governor said such proposed reforms coupled with the officers’ individual empowerment had since been delayed for unknown reasons.
“Such reforms comprises new vehicles, more training of the officers towards their profound efficiency as enshrined in the police service among others” he said.
Equally the Deputy Governor emphasized the need to train the officers on investment so that when one retires would continue with humble life to sustain their families’ livelihood.
He said of late, and currently things were different on the officers which actually demoralized a section of them resulting to psychological torture with end results of suicides among other untold eventualities.
The deputy Governor equally decried the current heavy taxes the officers along with fellow colleagues in the civil service encountered reducing their earnings to unmanageable meagre resources.
He called upon the current administration to adhere to the demands for improved welfare of the officers who not only were police officers but comprised the Prisons, Kenya Wildlife Service, Kenya forest service, and NYS among others.
Similar sentiments were echoed by the presiding Bishop Rev George Muthaka, of Garissa diocese who said for efficient services among the officers the government should focus on their welfare accordingly to equal their amount of job they undertake and there after face humble life in their retirement.
