Ten police recruits accused of falsifying academic credentials in order to be enlisted as Constables in the National Police Service (NPS) have been arrested and their courses have been terminated at the Kiganjo Campus.
The suspects were identified after the institution conducted due diligence on the legitimacy of the recruits’ academic documents, which revealed that some of them had falsified their documents, according to the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) on Thursday.
The DCI said, “A report forwarded to the college by the Kenya National Examination Council (KNEC) declared their Kenya Certificate of Secondary School Education documents presented by the recruits as forged. Investigations into their forged certificates indicated that some subject grades and mean grades had been deliberately altered to match the needed minimum requirements for joining the service”.
The suspects were identified as Mochama Opiyo Clive, Muithi John Kitavi, Natembea M. Kelvin, Nyapola Felix Angatia, Mwaulid Galgalo Bide, Gobra Grindguest, Ndambuki Irene Nzisa, Felix Kipkoech Langat, Kabatha Paul Kimani, and John Crispus Amisi by the agency, who noted that they were apprehended Wednesday evening by officers at the Kiganjo based campus.
The fake documents were taken and stored in safe custody as exhibits, to be used as evidence against them in court upon their arrest, according to the agency.
The suspects are currently being held at the Kiganjo police station pending arraignment for forgery and other pertinent offences, according to the George Kinoti-led agency.
“The ten are among 5,000 police constables who were recruited in March this year, as part of government’s efforts to increase the ratio of Police to civilians in order to improve service delivery to Kenyans,” said the agency.
Their arrest comes in the wake of increased reports of forgery of academic documents among some political leaders as the country prepares for the August 9 polls.