Nearly 2,000 Kenyan police ‘mentally unfit’ to serve

Almost 2,000 Kenyan police officers are mentally unfit to do their work, the head of the national police service says.

Inspector-General Hilary Mutyambai on Tuesday told a forum of bishops and senior clergy that they had found the “surprising” number of cases after medically examining all police officers.

Kenya has some 100,000 police officers working under the National Police Service.

The revelation comes amid rising number of depression and suicide within the police force.

Mr Mutyambai said they had started the process of discharging some of the affected police officers from duty, noting the importance of having police who were mentally fit.

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