Police IG Hillary Mutyambai Bans Police Officers from Using Social Media
Police officers across all ranks have been barred from using social media as a platform for airing their grievances.
Gathogo Wanjiru 
Through a memo signed by the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) Mwangi Wanderi, it is criminal for police officers to take to social media to speak about the challenges they undergo.
The move to ban police from using social media comes at a time when the majority of police officers have opted to take to social media to air the challenges they are facing.
“The Inspector-General has noted with a lot of concern that officers have developed a habit of using social media to advance their grievances without exhausting the laid down channels which include quality assurance/complaint and gender offices at service headquarters and the internal affairs unit,” Wanderi said in the Memo.
According to Chapter 24 section 55 of the service standing orders, it bars information transmission by members of the service on social media unless they can clearly be linked to the conduct of official business.
According to Mwangi Wanderi, it was an offense against discipline under section 6(w) chapter 30 of the standing orders to disclose or convey any information on police matters without proper authority.
