Police to help State collect revenues

The acting police boss also ordered a crackdown on contraband goods.

The statement further continues: "Unfortunately some unscrupulous taxpayers devise ways to cheat and evade paying taxes hence affect the projected revenue targets."

Gabow gave an example of an incident in Kirinyaga County where a lorry ferrying 1,000 cartons, each containing 20 bottles of alcohol, was impounded.

"This is just one of the many examples of tax evasion schemes. Criminals employ different tax evasion tricks to defraud the government."

Gabow said the police will work with revenue collection agencies in enforcing the directive.