'Police officers should wear body cameras to tame corruption,' Gladys Shollei says

Speaking on Citizen TV's Daybreak show on Monday, the county MP opined that if police officer don the body-cams, it will enable transparency and accountability in service delivery.

The legislator was discussing the war on graft by the Judiciary, where she claimed that some remandees are denied justice due to lack of apt officers and end up giving bribes just to be allowed a hearing in court.

"Police officers bring remandees to the court from time to time and sometimes you find that they don't bring them on time and the cases cannot proceed so you find remandees having to bribe police officers so that can actually be taken to court," she said.

"Again that can be cured by making sure police officers wear body cameras so that we can see what they are doing every time they interact with the public. That is the direction we should be going."

The National Assembly deputy speaker further expressed confidence that the Judiciary is on the right trajectory to combating corruption, recommending a myriad of systems that will sensitize the entire justice system.

She proposed the use of technology to digitize information at the registry and the introduction of CCTV cameras in Judicial offices.

"The issue of removing corrupt practices within the Judiciary has to be a continuous process and many systems will have to be put in place to change that," she said.

"They have a very good strategy, I have had an occasion to see it and I think it will be weeded out from time to time."