Salary Row as Police Officers November Payslips Reflect Negative Salaries
Graduate police officers are an agonised lot following a raid on their November Payslips that escalated their woes further ushering in an era of hard economic times .
Unplanned for Salary Deductions
Over one thousand police officers have cried foul of forceful deductions that they never expected.The unlucky officers have lost thousands of shillings.
Yesterday, reports went viral and have since been doing rounds in the local dailies about the deductions of the police officers’ pay.
However,the deductions targeted the police graduate constables who have been earning salaries equal to police inspectors.The affected officers have since threatened to seek legal redress- to go to court to block the deductions.
“We have had the loans on the salaries and reducing the same without a warning is killing us” one of the officers clamed are reported by Star Digital.The officers claimed that some of them lost over ksh 30,000 in the new deductions.
The salary pay slips for some of the affected Junior officers have now emerged.Unfortunately,some officers have had to remain with less than Ksh 1000 in their slips after the deductions.Others have got over 40,000 getting recovered leaving them with less than Ksh 200.Below are some of the slips as allegedly obtained by Dennis Itumbi:
Kenya Police Officer Salary 2021/2022
Kenya Police KPS salary scale 2021-2022
Like other professions, how much every Kenyan police earns relies upon their education level and the ranks they hold in the police force. In 2015, the Kenya police salary was increased by 100% – a move that saw many policemen and women celebrating and motivated to work harder. As per this new structure, the increment was to be spread in four stages and the police would earn the accompanying figures.
1. The basic salary for Kenya police constable was sh. 32,880, a compensation that was considerably higher than a fresh graduate in Kenya.
2. Corporals take home basic pay of Ksh 42, 660.
3.A constable pockets sh 45, 540 every end of the month.
4. Senior sergeants gets Sh50,220.
5. Police inspector earns a basic pay of Sh53,820.
6. Ass. Superintendent of police gets Sh70,530.
7. A Superintendent procures Ksh Sh73,020
8. A Senior superintendent gets Sh85,890.
10. Assistant inspector-general of police pockets Sh187,890.
11. A senior assistant inspector-general takes home Sh274,890 every month
12. The Inspector General of Police gets Sh854,241.