Employed police officers in numbers per community

UPDATE: A report by the Office of the IG Police shows Kalenjins form the majority of staff at the National Police Service,

The report, submitted to the Committee on National Cohesion and Equal Opportunity of the National Assembly shows Kalenjins are 19, 337 out of the total 106,830 police officers.

Members of the community employed with the National Police Service are Keiyo (1,840), Kipsigis (6,004), Marakwet (1,620), Nandi (5,507), Sabaot (1,440) and Tugen (2,926).

The report further shows Kikuyus form the second largest community employed at the service with 18, 004 members followed by Kamba (9,809), Luhya (9,752), Luo (8,773), Meru (7,121) and Kisii (6,517).

Kenya Police Service makes up the majority of the workforce with 74, 251 followed by Administration Police Service (26, 409) and Directorate of Criminal Investigations (6,170).

The report notes that during the last three recruitments carried out in the years 2017, 2018 and 2021, a total of 16,051 officers were employed.

The number of police officers actively engaged in fighting crime is approximately 50,000 while the rest are deployed to specialised units as well as VIP protection.

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