IG Kanja meets salaries commission team a day after ruling on police recruitment
By Kiprono Keileb, October 31, 2025The Salaries and Remuneration Commission (SRC) has opened talks with the National Police Service (NPS) to strengthen collaboration in ongoing police reforms aimed at improving service delivery and accountability.
According to a statement by the National Police Service on X on Friday, October 31, 2025, the Inspector General of Police, Douglas Kanja, hosted SRC Chairperson Sammy Chepkwony at his Jogoo House office in Nairobi. The courtesy call focused on several areas of potential collaboration between the two institutions.
During the meeting, IG Kanja briefed the SRC Chair on the reform initiatives.
“IG Kanja briefed the SRC Chair on the Service’s ongoing reform initiatives, which are geared towards realising a transparent, accountable, and people-centred Police Service,” the statement reads. The statement added that the reform journey seeks to transform police stations and service points across the country.
“This reform journey is designed to ensure police stations and other service areas across the country attain Centre of Excellence status in service delivery. The IG-NPS requested enhanced support and collaboration from the SRC to achieve these noble goals, which are intended to benefit the public,” the statement reads.
He further assured the SRC leadership that the police remain fully committed to safeguarding Kenyans and upholding national security.
“He apprised the SRC Chair of the National Police Service’s resolute commitment to serving the country. This includes ensuring borders remain safe from infiltration and attacks, clamping down on all forms of criminality, and keeping our streets and neighbourhoods safe,” NPS noted.
On his part, Chepkwony thanked the Inspector General for the warm welcome and praised the Service for its ongoing reforms. He explained that the SRC has been visiting government institutions to gain first-hand insight into their operations and service delivery processes.
“The SRC Chairperson thanked the IG for the comprehensive briefing and assured him that such in-depth engagements would inform the Commission’s future reviews and considerations for the Service, supporting its path to building and entrenching public trust,” the statement reads.
Also present at the meeting were SRC Commissioners Wangui Muchiri and Abdi Abdiwahab, together with Acting CEO Margaret Njoka.
The meeting comes at a time when Kenya’s police service continues to push for reforms that enhance professionalism, public confidence, and better working conditions for officers.
Police recruitment
The meeting comes a day after the Nairobi Employment and Labour Relations Court declared the advertised police recruitment exercise of 10,000 officers by the National Police Service Commission (NPSC) unconstitutional.
Lady Justice Hellen Wasilwa, on Thursday, October 30, 2025, ruled that the NPSC is not a national security organ under Article 239(1) of the Constitution and has no powers to conduct the recruitment as advertised.
The ruling gave IG Kanja a win in the police recruitment process.
“A declaration is hereby issued that the recruitment by national security organs under Article 232(d) of the Constitution can only be done by the national security organ itself, not any other entity outside the security organ,” Justice Wasilwa ruled.
“Article 245(1)(2)(b) and (4)(c): the National Police Service Commission has no power in relation to employment, assignment, promotion, suspension, or dismissal of the members of service,” Lady Justice Wasilwa added.