{"id":421636,"date":"2026-01-21T22:20:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T22:20:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/421636\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T22:20:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T22:20:11","slug":"how-mental-health-challenges-are-taking-a-toll-on-police-amid-efforts-to-address-menace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/421636\/","title":{"rendered":"How mental health challenges are taking a toll on police amid efforts to address menace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/0e8838a2-979f-4fec-a119-58a9466a2baf.jpg\" class=\"ui-draggable ui-draggable-handle\" style=\"max-width: 100%; width: 100%;\"\/>The Railways and Port Police Unit, under the leadership of Commandant Mr Geoffrey Mayek, AIG, during a recent Mental Health training\/NPS<\/p>\n<p>When the National Police Service Commission (NPSC)&#13;<br \/>\nrevealed their survey on the mental status of police officers, which showed between 12 and&#13;<br \/>\n13 percent of them have mental issues, few believed them.<\/p>\n<p>Worse, some insiders&#13;<br \/>\nsaid the figures could be higher.\u00a0\u00a0This was in 2022, and&#13;<br \/>\nit was based on 110,000 police officers in the country.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This is premium contentSubscribe to Continue Reading<img alt=\"Subscription\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"307\" height=\"169\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"h-auto w-44 lg:w-60\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/subscribe_banner.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Help us continue bringing you unbiased news, in-depth investigations, and diverse perspectives. Your subscription keeps our mission alive and empowers us to provide high-quality, trustworthy journalism. Join us today to make a difference!<\/p>\n<p>Already Subscribed? <a class=\"text-secondary underline\" href=\"https:\/\/www.the-star.co.ke\/account?redirectTo=%2Fnews%2F2026-01-21-how-mental-health-challenges-are-taking-a-toll-on-cops\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sign in<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Railways and Port Police Unit, under the leadership of Commandant Mr Geoffrey Mayek, AIG, during a recent&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":421637,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[97,201272,259,260,1583,43965,5447,5642,6836,43964,14771],"class_list":["post-421636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mental-health","tag-health","tag-kenya-police","tag-mental-health","tag-mentalhealth","tag-police","tag-star-news-kenya","tag-stress","tag-suicide","tag-the-star","tag-the-star-newspaper","tag-trauma"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=421636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421636\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/421637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=421636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=421636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=421636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}