Uasin Gishu Woman Representative Gladys Boss Shollei has suggested that the officers in the National Police Service (NPS) should start wearing body cams anytime they are interacting with members of the public.
Shollei said that will help in curbing graft and raising levels of transparency and accountability in service delivery.
She said that while speaking on Monday during a morning show on a local television channel/
"Again that can be cured by making sure police officers wear body cameras so that we can see what they are doing every time they interact with the public. That is the direction we should be going," Shollei said.
Shollei was giving her contributions to the discussion which was about the war on graft by the judiciary where she also claimed some unscrupulous police officers solicit for bribes to allow remandees to have their day in court.
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"Police officers bring remandees to the court from time to time and sometimes you find that they don't bring them on time and the cases cannot proceed so you find remandees having to bribe police officers so that can actually be taken to court," the legislator said.
She expressed her confidence in the Judiciary’s efforts in fighting graft and also proposed the application of technology to digitise information at the registry.
Shollei also suggested the introduction of CCTV cameras in judicial offices to help in the fight against graft.
"The issue of removing corrupt practices within the Judiciary has to be a continuous process and many systems will have to be put in place to change that," Shollei said.
"They have a very good strategy. I have had an occasion to see it and I think it will be weeded out from time to time."
Should Shollei’s recommendation be implemented, Kenyans who have in the past complained about police brutality, police victimisation and accused the police of planting evidence on them will be happy.