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Rare order for police officers to ‘stitch pockets’

Traffic police prepare charges for motorists arrested along Kakamega- Mumias Road for various traffic offences during the ongoing campaign to restore order on roads. [PHOTO: FILE/STANDARD]

By KIPCHUMBA SOME

In what he believed to be a pragmatic solution that would rid the Kenya Police Force of corruption, a police commissioner once naively issued a directive through the provincial police officers and formation commanders, instructing all police officers to stich their raincoat pockets closed as one way of ending graft on our roads.

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