A 49-year-old police officer was found dead after a suspected suicide incident at a police station in Kericho County.
Police said the incident happened at the Sossiot police station in Belgut, Kericho County and the officer involved was new at there.
He had been moved to the station weeks ago, his colleagues said.
The body of constable Paul Wagathari was found hanging on a shoelace long after he had died at the station’s radio room on Sunday morning.
The motive of the incident is yet to be known.
Police said Wagathari had come to the station on Sunday morning and told those on duty there were people chasing him from his house within the police line.
He spent his morning hours at the station’s radio room with two officers on duty.
The officers said they left to hoist the national flag and came back minutes later only to find the body hanging on the window grill with a shoelace tied around his neck.
The body was later removed to the local mortuary pending autopsy and other investigations.
This is the latest such incident to happen to police. There has been a surge in suicide cases among police officers.
Many say this is linked to their stress. Dozens of police officers have died as a result of suicide or were killed many in a trend that is attributed to stress at work.
The body was moved to the mortuary pending autopsy to establish the cause of the death, police said.
Jesca was recently promoted by Inspector General of Police Douglas Kanja from the rank of police constable to corporal.
