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Inspector General of Police Douglas Kanja at the official opening of Regional Center on Small Arms (RECSA) meeting. [Jonah Onyango, Standard]
The proposal to fix the retirement age of the Inspector-General (IG) and Deputy Inspectors-General (DIGs) at 60 years, as contained in the National Police Service (Amendment) Bill 2025, is ill-thought-out, unnecessary, and ultimately harmful to the independence and effective functioning of the National Police Service (NPS).
The leadership of the NPS, like all other constitutional office holders, must be accorded the space and stability to execute their mandate without undue political pressure or arbitrary restrictions.
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