• Graduate officers in May won a case to have their salaries increased to Job Group J from Job Group F.
• They want DCI to personally execute arrest warrants, want respondents detained for at least six months.
Some 1,774 graduate officers want Inspector General of Police Hillary Mutyambai and National Police Service Commission chairman Eliud Kinuthia jailed for contempt of court.
The officers, in a petition filed in court on Thursday, said Mutyambai and Kinuthia disobeyed a court order directing them to revise their salaries.
They want them summoned to show why they should not be punished for contempt.
The officers further want the court to direct DCI George Kinoti to personally execute warrants of arrest against Kinuthia and the IG.
Further, the respondents should bear all the costs of their application.
In May, the officers won a case against Mutyambai and NPSC after Judge Byram Ongaya ruled that graduates should get salaries equivalent to officers in the ranks of Inspector of Police and chief inspectors in Job Group J.
Ongaya said paying graduate officers a salary scale below job group J amounts to denial, violation, infringement and or threat to their fundamental rights.
Their monthly salaries were, therefore, to be revised to between Sh45,000 and Sh60,000.
The Star has established that there are close to 5,000 constables and non-commissioned officers (NCO) –those in the ranks of corporal, sergeant and senior sergeant.
The officers said they expected to receive salary increment from this month but "nothing had reflected on their payslips".
The officers filed a petition in November last year accusing the IG and NPSC of deliberate and malicious discrimination against graduate officers.
After successful struggles in the corridors of justice, the IG and NPSC were directed to upgrade the salaries of the graduate officers from Job Group F to J.
"Despite all the directives in the order, we have all received payslips that didn't reflect the expected upgrade," the petition reads.
Edited by R.Wamochie