The Deputy Inspector General of Police Aineah Olwenye has issued a notice to police officers stating that they will have to first seek permission from their seniors before receiving visitors at their place of work.
“Any officer wishing to bring relatives or friends into the line shall obtain written permission from orderly N.C.O (In-charge Line sand Discipline) and shall be registered unauthorized persons shall be excluded from police lines,” Olwenye wrote in the notice.
According to Olwenye, this enforcement was issued in a bid to boost security in all police lines and other police premises.
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This enforcement has sparked a lot of reactions from the people as well as the police who now feel that police officers have been subjected to more stringent rules in line with the CS Fred Matiangi’s radical reforms at the National Police Service(NPS).
Matiang’i had issued a directive that barred the members of the police service from having affairs and marrying each other while still under the National Police Service in April 2021.
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Barely two months later, the Inspector General of Police Hillary Mutyambai banned all the police from airing out their grievances on the social media platforms after two women in the police service raised an alarm of being harassed by their seniors in social media.
And now another directive is here to limit their freedom of seeing their visitors as often they had been doing in the recent past.