Government begins auditing police degrees

President Uhuru Kenyatta inspects a parade when he presided over the Kenya Police Service recruits passing out in Kiganjo, Nyeri County.

The government will from next week start auditing 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.