{"id":1121199,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1121199/?format=json","text_counter":335,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Sen. Cherargei","speaker_title":"","speaker":{"id":13217,"legal_name":"Cherarkey K Samson","slug":"cherarkey-k-samson"},"content":"I am not saying that police officers are bad, but the police reforms should be fast- tracked so that the police officers are re-trained to understand the role of the promulgation of the Constitution of Kenya 2010 whereas captured vividly by Article 26; the right to life not to be deprived through judicial authority. In the past, we used to think that extrajudicial killings and enforced disappearances is a preserve of the coastal region and North Eastern because of the fight against the Al Shabaab or terror related crime. The most feared arm of the NPS is the Anti-Terrorism Police Unit (ATPU). I do not know how the ATPU operates. Is there a law guiding the operations of the ATPU? The ATPU arrests suspects and interrogates them how they want yet Kenya is a signatory of the United Nations Conventions against Forced Disappearances. There is even an Act in place."}