Gloves-off as Police Spokesman Charles Owino differs with CS Matiang’i over Police Entry Grades

Police Spokesman Charles Owino has sturdily differed with Interior Cabinet Secretary Dr. fred Matiang’i over the entry grades to the police service. Owino claimed that police who scored C+ and above in KCSE go back to school and get degrees, which they use to pursue for promotions.

“We have a challenge when we employ every policeman with Grade C+ and above. They go back to school, get degrees and come back and ask for promotions. It is important we get officers who have C plain, C- and D+,” Owino told a local media station on Wednesday.

Owino’s sentiments are in contradiction to Matiangi’s proposal that the entry grade for policemen be increased to enhance their efficiency in handling complicated cases that involved scientific and forensic analysis.

Matiang’i had posed: “If we are admitting you with a D+ then we are telling you to go to the complex science of analyzing blood and preparing a document that the DPP is going to use in court to prove murder, are we seriously honesty.”

Owino further defended the police for the good work they were doing and acknowledged the decency of the State of kenya’s security. He claimed that robberies and car thefts had diminished “apart from a few organized crimes where people were planning to kill others.”