Police officers will get a pay raise this month following the conclusion of a job evaluation process by the National Police Service Commission (NPSC).

NPSC chairperson Eliud Kinuthia yesterday said the review was arrived at following a consensus from a process undertaken jointly with the Salaries and Remuneration Commission (SRC).

“We have participated fully with the SRC to ensure this is successful,” Kinuthia said.

The third remuneration review cycle affects both the uniformed officers and civilians within the service, and the process is in line with the review cycle of the civil servants’ pay as provided for by the Constitution.

The increment however is not related to the yet-to-be released David Maraga-led Taskforce.

“There is a clear delineation of mandate between a constitutional commission and a taskforce. It would have happened whether or not the taskforce was in place or not, the Presidential Taskforce is in fact had higher mandate,” the chairman said.

Final phase

The first circular on police review was released in 2019 following the third phase of increment with the second one being issued in 2020 for the final phase of the previous administration.

The move comes as a big relief to the officers who have never had an increment for the last two years. Out of Sh27.1 billion released by the Treasury for pay increment, police get Sh3.6 billion.

Some Sh2.84 billion will be released in the 2023-24 financial year while Sh1.3billion being set for the next financial year.

Inspector General of police Japhet Koome said the money will reflect in the payslips by tomorrow.

Koome had told his juniors the increase will not be effected as announced by the Salaries Remuneration Commission.

Instead he told his officers to be patient until a task force formed to review police affairs completes its work.

New salaries

“Please note that, my attention has been draw to information appearing in the media regarding new salaries for members of the National Police Service.”

“Consequently, you are asked to inform all members of the National Police Service to be patient for the next few weeks with a view to waiting for release of the Presidential Taskforce on reforms in the National Police Service report/recommendations to the appointing authority,” he said in an internal memo.

He said once this has been done, all will be informed on the new salaries and allowances by this office.