This, on top of the so many deductions on their pay slips, leaves them with very little to take home.
As a nursing student currently doing my clinical rotations in The Nairobi West Hospital, I have spent part of my time in the Psychiatry Unit, attending to police officers with mental illness.
Having spent my formative years in a police camp with my dad being a serviceman, I got a chance to experience the life of police officers first-hand. Using the World Health Organisation’s definition of health as a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity, there is an overt turbulence in the National Police Service.
