Months after the government announced plans to integrate them with the public, police officers in some parts of Nyanza are already settling into their new homes which they share with ordinary Kenyans.
However, the junior police officers and prison warders are having it rough getting used to their new environment, and are now more worried about their own lives and that of their property, than about Kenyans' well being.
Most of whom have rented houses in Kisumu slums, but are now claiming that they have turned into 'hotcake' for criminals who are eyeing their uniforms and other job apparatus.
Some told the Standard that they cannot hang their clothes out to dry for fear that they will be stolen by criminals, with others worried that thieves will break into their houses.
Some have already lost their mercanside to the criminal gangs, with other claiming that they are being harrased by the hands while on their way to and from work.
“My house was broken into when I reported to work at night and I lost my uniforms as well as a pair of military boots. My colleagues too have been affected by burglary,” a warder told the Standard on Tuesday.
On top of this is the little house Sh5,500 allowance given to them, which has pushed them into living in deplorable conditions than the one that had in the police lines.
The changes came as one of the government's remedy to the widening rift between the police and the citizens whom they are tasked to protect.