The National Police Service (NPS) reaffirmed that its nationwide recruitment drive for 10,000 police constables will take place today on Monday, 17 November 2025, across all 427 designated centres in the country.
The service on Sunday said they had changed the venue for recruitment for police constables on November 17, 2025.
The exercise is scheduled for Monday in all subcounties in the country.
The police said the venue had changed from Kamukunji Sports Grounds to Morrison Primary School.
“The original venue, located some two kilometres away, has been deemed unfit to conduct the recruitment due to ongoing construction works,” a statement said.
NPS spokesperson Muchiri Nyaga said the
exercise—advertised in local dailies on 31 October—will run from 8 am to
5 pm and will be conducted in a single day.
Nyaga urged qualified Kenyan youth to turn up for the
opportunity, describing the recruitment not only as a gateway to employment but
also as “a new dawn for Kenya.”
He said those who qualify will form part of a new cohort
expected to advance the reforms currently underway within the service.
Acknowledging concerns over corruption in previous
recruitment exercises, the NPS issued a strong warning against bribery,
emphasising that both givers and takers of illicit payments would face
prosecution.
“We wish to state categorically and emphatically that
anyone who indulges, or attempts to indulge, in bribery or corruption in any
form will face the full force of the law,” Nyaga said.
The Service appealed to the public for continued support as
it works toward strengthening professionalism, accountability, and
community-centred policing across the country.
The High Court in Nairobi on Friday lifted an order that had stopped a
planned police recruitment exercise.
Justice Bahati Mwamuye issued the orders to lift the earlier ones he had
given.
The Inspector General of Police Douglas Kanja had made an application to
have the orders lifted.
“Pending the inter partes hearing and determination of the 1st Interested
Party/Applicant's Notice of Motion Application dated 13/11/2025, the
conservatory orders issued on 10/11/2025 in this matter are stayed, and the
obtaining status quo ante in place immediately before their issuance shall
apply in the interim.”
”The 1st Interested Party/Applicant shall serve its Application dated
13/11/2025 and this Court Order on all parties and file an Affidavit of Service
in that regard,” the judge ordered.
Justice Mwamuye suspended the orders issued on November 10, 2025,
effectively restoring the situation that existed before the recruitment was
stopped.
With the stay in place, the police recruitment exercise previously thrown
into uncertainty following a petition by activist Eliud Matindi can now go on.
In his petition, Matindi argued that the National Police Service
Commission (NPSC) — not the Inspector General — is constitutionally mandated to
handle recruitment into the National Police Service under Article 246(3)(a) of
the Constitution.
This came as the team to conduct the recruitment met at the National
Police Service Campus B in Embakasi to finalise the exercise.
Mwamuye had temporarily halted the planned national recruitment of police
constables following a petition challenging the legality of the process
initiated by the Inspector-General of Police.
Mwamuye issued conservatory orders suspending the recruitment exercise
that had been advertised on November 4, 2025, by the Inspector-General, pending
the hearing and determination of a petition filed by Eliud Karanja Matindi.
Matindi had sued the Inspector-General of the National Police Service,
the National Police Service Commission (NPSC), and the Attorney-General, naming
the National Police Service and Katiba Institute as interested parties.
The NPSC had earlier, on September 5, 2025, announced plans to recruit
10,000 police constables, citing its constitutional and statutory mandate.
Matindi’s petition argued that this move was unconstitutional, arguing that the IG has no legal authority to undertake recruitment without express delegation from the NPSC as required under Section 10(2) of the National Police Service Commission Act.
