Entry Instance

HTTP 200 OK
Allow: GET, PUT, PATCH, DELETE, HEAD, OPTIONS
Content-Type: application/json
Vary: Accept

{
    "id": 1021515,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1021515/?format=api",
    "text_counter": 91,
    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Suna West, Independent",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Peter Masara",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 13486,
        "legal_name": "Peter Francis Masara",
        "slug": "peter-francis-masara"
    },
    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I want to appreciate my able Chairman for that response, which has enabled the House to know progress in terms of police reforms. As a person who sought the Statement on three major issues, I want to state that the first one has been ably addressed but the second and third issues need a lot of detail. We had earlier on agreed that I will be furnished with detailed information in the Committee. As you are aware, this House allocates funds to this Government Department. If, indeed, the House needs to help police officers on what I sought – how the National Police Service is addressing socio-related stress – then it needs adequate funding. If you read the response, there is a pilot counselling and rehabilitation centre that has been established in Ruaraka. However, officers in far areas such as Suna West may not access such services in the near future. Parliament should allocate more funds so that the rolling out of such a facility is fast-tracked to ensure that police officers are assisted to discharge their duties properly. On the third issue of training, since the institution is transforming from being a “police force” to a “police service”, there is need to ensure that officers who were using force are trained to discharge their duties as a service to the public. The response is wanting. However, as a Member of the Committee, I have noted that there is a gap between financing and what is being done. The National Police Service might have done excellent paper work but it is not being well financed. I want to beg this House that in the next financial year, we should allocate this Department enough funds so that police officers get adequate training so that they can discharge services in a friendlier manner to the public as a Police Service and not as a Police Force."
}