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Police service employees are extremely crucial to the country since their value is essentially intangible and not easily replicated. Kenya police service employees have been complaining of career growth and opportunity, better compensation, structured induction programs, performance management tools, equitable compensation packages, job satisfaction and good leadership skills were found to influence their decision to stay with their current employer. The objective of this study was to establish the influence of working environment on organizational performance in the Kenya Police Service. The study was carried out in the police services using Lakipia Police Divisional Headquarters. The study adopted a descriptive survey research design. The target population of the study was 86 disciplined uniformed officers who work in the Laikipia Police Division headquarters. The researcher conducted a census of all the respondents from the Laikipia Police Division headquarter. Descriptive statistics which includes frequencies and percentages were used to analyze data. The study used Pearson correlation analysis to test the hypothesis and the p-value from test statistic. The study concludes that working environment is one of the key issues in the world’s Kenya police service. The study recommends that the governments should ensure that police officers are given proper working tools and equipment to improve their performance. The police department should professionally come up with a practical scheme of service and policies that ensures that there is no conflicting policies in the police organization structure.
International Journal of Public Policy and Administration
Effectiveness of Working Conditions on Performance Among Kenya Police Officers in Marsabit County, Kenya2022 •
WILBERFORCE JOURNAL OF THE SOCIAL SCIENCES
Work Environment Factors as Challenges to Job Performance by the Nigeria Police in Rivers State Command, NigeriaThe police is the foremost arm of the criminal justice network, established to detect crime and protect the lives and property of citizens. With these onerous tasks, there has been a high and increasing cases of violent and non-violent crimes in Rivers State. This paper therefore, examines the work environment factors that serves as challenges to job performance by the Rivers State Command of the Nigeria police. The choice of the state was necessitated by the high and increasing rate of criminal activities and the escalating spates of violence vis-à-vis the inability of the police to prove their mettle in stemming the high rate of criminal activities in the state. The objectives of the study are (a) examine the link between police work environment and their capacity to perform optimally their law enforcement function and (b) examine the work environment of the police visa-vis its implication for work related stress and police work performance. The methodology adopted was both quanti...
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In 2015, 2,919 crimes were reported. In 2016, the number increased to 3097 indicating a decline in service delivery. However, in 2017, the crimes recorded dropped to 2,618 translating to a great improvement in service delivery. Thus, the researcher analyzed the influence of police equipment on service delivery of Kenya police officers in Mombasa County. It assumed that the police equipment has influence on service delivery of Kenya police officers in Mombasa County thus, aimed at establishing this influence. Resource based and attribution theories were used. Mixed research method was used with target population being 1040 officers. Census sampling was adopted for the ranks of CP, SSP and SP while for the rest, stratified sampling technique was used.10% of the target population was used. 118 officers responded. Questionnaires and interview were used in data collection while SPSS version 22.0 and multiple regression was used to bringing out the findings in terms of frequencies mean and standard deviation. The study found out that provision of police equipment significantly improved service delivery among police officers in Mombasa County. Provision of serviceable and adequate police equipment was recommended. Further studies were recommended on the influence of service equipment on service delivery of other public security sectors like the Kenya Prisons service. This study urged the police management to consider the recommendations of this study during decision making. This will influence effectiveness, efficiency and sustainability of service delivery among police officers in the county of Mombasa, Kenya.
European Journal of Business and Management
Assessment of the Influence of Organizational Factors on the Relationship between Pre –Service Training and Service Delivery by the Kenya National Police Service: A case of Bungoma County2014 •
Organization changes to the performance of Civil Service Police Unit employees have several problems, namely (a). Limitations The number of personnel members and the relatively low quality of human resources, resulting in the implementation of the task is not optimal; (b) Enforcement of Perda has only been realized by 15 Perda with 125 times the operation of the operation and 809 routine operations (42.85%); (c) Lack of public awareness of compliance with the law. The population in the study were 30 employees of the Civil Service Police Unit of North Kalimantan Province. The calculation technique uses (1) validity test; (2) reliability testing; (3) Multiple regression. The level of confidence in the study was 95%. The results of multiple regression using t-test for organization change variables obtained a Sig value of 0.010. Then for the organization culture variable the Sig value of 0.013 is obtained. Organization change has a significant influence on employee performance in the North Kalimantan Civil Service Police Unit and organization culture has a significant influence on employee performance in the North Kalimantan Civil Service Police Unit.
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The central problem of this study is that despite the government reform efforts in the National police service, performance has continued to worsen with criminal activities increasing by the day. Challenges leading to this miserable service delivery have not been adequately investigated and well understood, hence hindering performance by the security officers who play a critical role in security issues. The study provide the background information to research organizations and scholars to carry out further research in this area and use it as reference material and a basis of identifying research gaps. This research project was therefore an attempt to discuss the influence of internal organizational factors on the service delivery in Kenya police service as an organization with police commands within Kitui County. This paper assessed leadership as the main internal factor that influence service delivery in the Kenya police service in Kitui County. The consideration of the relationshi...
Journal of Public Policy & Governance
Impact of Resource Allocation on the Performance of Kenya Police Officers in Nairobi City County, KenyaThe coming into force of the constitution of Kenya 2010 has led to several restructuring efforts in the Kenya law enforcement agency. The national law enforcement agency structure review focused on improving the efficiency and effectiveness of Kenya’s law enforcement agency. For a number of years, the service delivery has not fully reflected the mission statement, of the Kenya law enforcement agency of providing quality service to meet and exceed the expectations of the public. This study sought to determine the impact of police restructuring on the performance of Kenyan police officers in Nairobi City County. The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of resource allocation on the performance of Kenyan police officers in Nairobi City County. This study was anchored on human capital theory and resource dependency theory. This employed in a descriptive study approach, and targeted 3739 Kenya police officers working in Nairobi City County, consisting of 33 Gazetted Officers...
International Journal of Business Management, Entrepreneurship and Innovation
Organization Social Practice and Performance in the Kenya National Police Service: A Case of Central Police Division, NairobiThe National Police Service of Kenya has gone through numerous transformations which are aimed at making it more effective and socially aligned to the needs of the Kenyan population. The transformation has seen the renaming of the policing unit from Kenyan Police Force to its current name. The Strategy such as renaming the institution to National Police Service implies that the institution is improving its commitment to improve service delivery to the citizens in a favorable social framework. However, minimal studies have been done to determine the existence of any relationship between organizational social practices and performance of the police institution. Therefore, the current study was formulated to establish the influence of organizational social practices on the performances of the National Police Service. The independent variables of the study included leadership style, organization structure, professionalism, and organization politics. Practice and system theories were rev...
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Purpose: Several studies on police reforms have established that there is ineffectiveness in terms of performance among police officers. Ineffectiveness in police performance has been a major problem among many policing organizations the world over. This study sought to establish the effects of the command restructuring on the performance of police officers. Methodology: A descriptive research design was adopted. Qualitative and quantitative techniques of data analysis were used. Findings: The study established that command structure has a positive and significant relationship with the performance of police officers. This was supported by a correlation value of .317, p<.01. The results imply that a single unit change in the command structure results in .317 increases in the performance of police officers. Conclusions and Recommendation: The study concluded that despite the reorganization of the National Police Service command structure ineffectiveness in performance by police off...
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