In a bizarre trend that has led to the deaths of hundreds of Police officers in the past few years, a Kenyan has called for the posting of at least one psychologist per police station.
Cases of police committing suicide, and sometimes going down with their loved ones have balooned with the latest being a suicide threat by Chief Inspector and world champion Asbel Kiprop.
Towards the end of the month of May, a 28-year-old woman died after a Deputy OCS shot her on the head.
Surprised at what had just happened, the Deputy OCS- Mr Joab Omondi would later turn the gun himself. He died on the spot.
Around the same period, a GSU officer in Eldoret shot his aunt, uncle and girlfriend before shooting himself dead.
In January, a police officer at Kipevu excused himself to go to the toilet, only to shoot himself dead.
The officer-Mr Charles Ndolo used his AK47 gun to shoot himself right on the head, where he died on the spot.
Last year was no different either. Tens of police officers either killed themselves in love triangles or through suicide.
With the change in management at the helm of police affairs, new Inspector General of Police Hillary Mutyambai comes into the office to a full in-tray.
OCS Joab Omondi was a Masters degree holder in Psychology from an Indian University.
Being a profession of an over-worked but under-paid individuals, police officers are bound to take a beating from the predisposition of their job.
Hussein Khalid, the director of Haki Africa, says Police, like any other normal human being, experience the “normal ups and downs of everyday life.”
For the same reason, he proposes that police stations be equipped with psychologists to help the officers cope with the emotional demands that come with the nature of their occupation.