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Transfers don't discipline police, court rules

Police patrolling in Kakamega town on March 2023. [Benjamin Sakwa/ Standard]

Transferring police officers to discipline them amounts to harassment and is not a solution to indiscipline, Employment and Labour Relations Court Judge Nduma Nderi has said.

The judge, in a case where a Directorate of Criminal Investigations officer sued the National Police Service for deploying him to an anti-stock theft unit in Mandera, said police bosses should do away with the trend as it amounts to unfair labour practice.

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