i will not do anything differently...it's a system

I don't suppose there's any willingness at the top to root out this menace. And it's not too hard to understand why. These guys (the police top brass) are the direct products of the system. They don't understand any other language. The police force has many things wrong with it. I think a huge part of that has to do with the quality of recruits we've been getting in there. If I was the Commissioner of Police (soon to be Inspector-General), I would lobby for better educated recruits. It's a pity that we are reviewing their salaries upwards without significantly raising the bar for their qualifications. I think an educated and professional police force is easier to motivate and to drive away from petty corruption. Grand corruption might call for other solutions. If the police are professional and do their job as they should, matatus will not break the law and doing things the right way will become cheaper than doing them the wrong way. Still, it has to be acknowledge that such a change would not take a few years, but ultimately it would pay off. Much sooner if it's effected in the leadership first.

.....MANY WILL FIND FAULT. FEW CAN DO BETTER......

how true

@seppuku i beg to differ,I don't think that we should blame the faults in the police force to the quality of recruits/education. I have witnessed recruits who join the force to be innocent and morally upright people. They are changed by the rotten majority already in the force and the poor administration of the force. I think @seppuku you will bear me witness that people are more afraid of fresh recruits since they don't know that corrupt language since they are more likely to follow the law.

The Police problem can be sorted only from without the force. e.g making the government collection of fines on the spot and easily to any bank and introducing cameras on the roads. The next thing is to remove the porosecutorial powers from the hands of the police.We then need to up fines/ penalties so high that even the lose cops hike their bribe demands and lastly, we need to educate the masses on their rights and responsibilities.

For example, for those who drive in the city's roundabouts, you may have noticed that PSVs especially buses overlap and use the wrong lanes while they can clearly see the cop. Why, coz they know the guy will do jerk. However, where the cops take action, PSVs will never attempt to do that. There needs to be set up a system that enables other motorists curb that even if it is by calling some line for action( which can be corroborated by the cameras anyway) and action must be taken and seen to be taken.

I know for a fact that there are very good cops out there who have every intention to deliver, but they need help from us and we have failed them alot. I also think that traffice police should stop trying to overide traffice lights. That is a job for computers. they should instead ensure evryone follows the traffice law ( Esp the 'big idiots who believe traffic should be disrupted coz they are late or have place to go...ABK)

@Bwenyenye,the cameras and prompt fines will do a good job in deterring the matatu drivers who stop to pick passengers anywhere and get back to the road oblivious of the on coming vehicles. These are some of the annoying habits on the roads.

sitaki hiyo kazi mimi

I at times agree with T-bug (prison break) that policemen are sometimes more crooked than crooks. And until we the citizens get the power to police our police men and women, there does not seem to be any light at the end of the tunnel. Remember how immediately after 2002 NARC win passengers had started arresting corrupt traffic cops? The government made a huge mistake of not building on this to root out the vise. Perhaps the powers that be felt threatened that the wananchi would go after them soon after they were done with the police.

Bribery is bad!

The annoying habit of overlapping is cropping up too fast. Immediately there is a traffic jam, matatus and private cars start overlapping, in some cases even going to the wrong side of a dual carriageway, with lights flashing. This needs to stop, i wish i was a policeman to make those cars reverse all the way. Or just stop them for 3 hours while the ones on the right road pass.