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Police announce last-minute change of a recruitment venue in Nairobi
16th November, 2025 04:01 PM
The National Police Service (NPS) has announced changes to the police recruitment venue for candidates taking part in the exercise on Monday, November 17, 2025.
In notice on Sunday, November 16, 2025, the NPS updated the candidates participating in the National Police Recruitment of a change in venue for the Nairobi County, Kamukunji Sub-County Centre (No. 408).
The recruitment, previously scheduled to take place at Kamukunji Sports Grounds, will now be held at Morrison Primary School.
“The original venue, located some two kilometres away, has been deemed unfit to conduct the recruitment due to ongoing construction works,” NPS said.
On October 31, 2025, NPS announced the recruitment of 10,000 police constables through an advert that made headlines across the media houses.
“On 31st October 2025, the National Police Service (NPS) placed an advertisement in all the leading daily newspapers, announcing the recruitment of 10,000 suitably qualified youths to be trained as police constables,” said NPS.
The High Court then temporarily stopped the recruitment after activist Matindi filed a petition seeking to stop the hiring of the new police officers.
However, the court has since lifted the order, paving the way for the exercise to move forward.
Justice Bahati Mwamuye, on Friday, November 14, 2025, lifted the interim orders that he had issued after a London-based activist, Eliud Matindi, moved to court seeking orders blocking the exercise.
Matindi argued that the Inspector General of Police (IG) Douglas Kanja has no constitutional powers to recruit police officers into the National Police Service (NPS), stating that it is the mandate of the National Police Service Commission (NPSC) to recruit the officers.
However, the IG, through State Counsel Christopher Marwa, filed a notice of motion seeking to have the conservatory orders barring the recruitment of additional police officers be lifted.
In his application, IG Kanja argued that there has been no recruitment of police officers for the past three years, and as a result of natural attrition, there is a shortage of police officers in the country.
“Due to the shortage of the police officers as a result of a lack of recruitment of police officers for the past three years and natural attrition, there has been a rise of security challenges in the country,” IG states in his notice of motion.
Notably, the IG stated that there is also a need to increase the number of police officers, noting the impending general election that is scheduled for August 2027, and elections in the country come with heavy security challenges, which require adequate police officers to manage.
Justice Mwamuye granted the IG his request by staying the conservatory orders he had issued earlier, giving the green light for him to proceed with the recruitment as earlier scheduled on November 17, 2025, pending the hearing and determination of the matter.
“That pending the inter partes hearing and determination of the IG notice of motion application dated November 13, 2025, the conservatory orders issued on November 10, 2025, in this matter are stayed, and the obtaining status quo ante in place immediately before their issuance shall apply in the interim,” Justice Mwamuye ordered.
