Survey: Police top list of individuals involved in corruption and unethical practices
Police officers have emerged as the most implicated group in corruption and unethical conduct in Kenya.
This is according to the 2024 National Ethics and Corruption Survey released by the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) on Tuesday, August 5, 2025.
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The survey, which assessed the extent of unethical practices across various professions and gauged public satisfaction with service delivery, revealed that 27.6% of respondents identified police officers as the most involved in corruption.
They were followed by the Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) officers at 7.3 per cent; chiefs (16.2 per cent), county inspectorate officers (14.6 per cent), lawyers (14.1 per cent), county revenue officers (13.4 per cent), and land surveyors (13.3 per cent) were the top five professional groups reported to be mostly involved in unethical practices and corruption.
“Teachers (24.5 per cent), journalists (22.8 per cent), university lecturers (19.4 per cent), bankers (16.6 per cent), doctors and nurses (13.9 per cent), and economists (13.5 per cent) were reported as least involved in unethical practices and corruption,” read the survey.
The survey also highlighted growing public dissatisfaction with the integrity of public service delivery.
A significant 71.9 per cent of respondents reported being very dissatisfied or dissatisfied with the levels of integrity, transparency, and accountability in public offices. Only 14.5 per cent expressed satisfaction.
“The respondents who indicated either very dissatisfied or dissatisfied with integrity, transparency and accountability in public service delivery in Kenya cited high levels of corruption (25.1 per cent), poor service delivery (12.5 per cent) and poor leadership full of false promises and rampant favouritism in public service as some of the major reasons for their dissatisfaction,” read the survey.
On the other hand, the respondents who indicated satisfaction with integrity, transparency and accountability in public service delivery in Kenya cited improved service delivery (42.5 per cent), digitisation of services (7.5 per cent), action being taken on corrupt individuals (6.6 per cent) and robust anti-corruption laws/measures in place (6.3 per cent) as some of the main reasons for their satisfaction.
