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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wetangula",
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        "legal_name": "Moses Masika Wetangula",
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    "content": "reached the police station, we were told; “these are not our officers. We do not have any such officers”. Mr. Speaker, Sir, police uniform like Army uniform should not be easy to imitate. It is dangerous if what Sen. Cherargei is saying is true, that police officers are being told to go to tailors, fit and make their own uniforms. We have known police officers being given uniform that is made centrally with particular features that are difficult to imitate, so that they are easily identifiable. Not to be identified for people to run away from them, but identified for people with problems to go to them to be assisted. I want to urge the Committee chaired by Sen. Yusuf Haji - I believe it is the Committee that you are going to give this question to deal with - to advise the House and the police force at large, that even today, when you look at the police force, they are wearing two different sets of uniforms. There are those in blue and those in old uniforms. The moment you transitioned from old uniforms to the new uniforms, one would have thought that the old uniform is outlawed altogether so that we have a police force that when you see the uniform, you can tell this is a Kenyan policeman or woman and go to them for support. Therefore, how we handle the police officers - as I finish - is very important for the confidence the public have and the confidence the police themselves have in the themselves in giving us civil security. Mr. Speaker, Sir, housing for police officers is a matter that needs to be looked at. I heard an announcement that police officers are now given a few shillings and told to go and look for residences in suburbs of Nairobi, for example, Ongata Rongai or wherever. This is very dangerous. A person carrying a weapon going to live in the midst of a place that they do not, or even if they know, they cannot guarantee their own security does not augur well for our civil authority in this county."
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