The commission had stopped higher salaries for the constables after it emerged some of the officers had forged them/FILE
NAIROBI, Kenya, May 2 – The National Police Service Commission (NPSC)is set to start conducting an authentication exercise of degree certificates for police constables in Nairobi and Machakos Counties from Wednesday.
The process is aimed at enabling those with degrees earn better salaries.
The commission had stopped higher salaries for the constables after it emerged some of the officers had forged them.
The holders are supposed to fill a questionnaire and provide required documents before a team carrying out the exercise.
This is part of the government’s move to audit all degrees held by police officers in order to clean the payroll after a pay dispute erupted over the reduction of salaries for graduate and disabled officers.
The pay cuts were effected on their March pay slips after it emerged that thousands of officers were presenting fake degrees in order to qualify for higher pay.
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