The National Police Service Commission has vowed to scale the fight against corrutpion in bid to support the government's commitment to transparency and accountability.
The Commission's chair Eliud Kinuthia said they will work with corruption prevention agencies and in full compliance to the statutory frameworks for ensuring zero tolerance to corruption.
He noted that the Commission has identified corruption as one of the offences against discipline for a police officer and a civilian staff.
"Going forward, the Commission will strengthen the monitoring and reporting framework of all disciplinary offences where the Inspector General is delegated to take less severe disciplinary action that includes reprimand, suspension, restitution, stoppage of salary increment, confinement and reduction of salary and fines, by requiring reporting disaggregated data that singles out corruption disciplinary offences among delegated ranks," Kinuthia said.
Kinuthia spoke on Friday during a consultative meeting on corruption prevention in public service held at the Kenya School of Government.
During his address, Kinuthia said out of the 1, 239 disciplinary offences brought to the Commission, 47 were corruption offences.
The NPSC boss said they acted on the case involving the 47 and took appropriate action in accordance with the law.
"27 were dismissed; 4 officers’ ranks were reduced; 12 officers were removed; 2 officers were fined and 2 officers were acquitted after being found not culpable," he said.
Kinuthia said despite efforts to contain corruption, work remains to be done to weed out the vice completely in the police service.
"Commission continues to receive numerous complaints from police officers, civilian staff and the public," he said.
"For example, in promotions alone, the Commission has received 36 complaints of corruption allegations which are under investigation."
To tame runway corruption in the traffice department of the National Police Service, the commission recommended centralization of the department.
He went on to urge:
"Reconsider the past decision on decentralization of the traffic department in favour of a centralized command of the traffic department with a requirement that all police officers manning traffic and security roadblocks who are not under covert operations to have their uniforms fitted with high definition (HD) body cameras."