SRC Job Evaluation KDF, NYS, Kenya Police

The Salaries and Remuneration Commission is gearing up to conduct a comprehensive evaluation in the disciplined forces.

The SRC job evaluation in KDF, NYS, Kenya Police Service, Kenya Prisons Services among others is part of an ongoing exercise that is geared

towards the preparation of a guide on remuneration and benefits in the entire public sector.

The evaluation targets the entire national security service (excluding the NSIS). The services to be evaluated are;

KDF (Which is composed of the 3 forces).
National police service; Which is composed of;

Prisons Services.
Administration Police.
Kenya Police Service. Take note that the Kenya Police is very large in terms of the number of departments because inthere you have the traffic department, the regular police, the GSU, the ATPU, Kenya Forestry Service (KFS), Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) etc.

Status of job evaluation: SRC advertised for tenders on 19 August 2015. The tenders is entitled, “Request for consultancy services for undertaking a comprehensive job evaluation for the public service in the disciplined forces.”

There is little chance for Kenyan Companies to win a tender of this magnitude. This tender will be won by either one of the Big Four accounting and consultancy firms such as PWC, Delloite, KPMG and E&Y.

SRC is currently carrying out job analysis in the county governments. The tender for the county job evaluation was awarded to PWC. It will be interesting to know which company will the tender to conduct the job evaluation in the disciplined forces.

Retrenchment following job evaluation

Taking into consideration the job evaluation that was conducted by SRC on the Civil Servants, the outcome of a job evaluation involves recommendations about the following key areas;

Redundancies in the work force (i.e. Duplication in the work place)
Restructuring of the work force.
Qualifications of the work force. This will be an interesting report to read.
Salaries and benefits.

Several civil servants had been scared that at the end of the job evaluations in March 2016, there will be massive retrenchment. However, SRC has clarified that no civil servant will be retrenched following the evaluation. This is highly likely to hold true for the disciplined forces. So there is no reason to panic.