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    "speaker_name": "The Cabinet Secretary for Interior and National Administration",
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    "content": "keep terror at bay. We can detect the movement of terrorists before they start their journey to Kenya. This is what API will do. At the moment, PISCES has helped us. (c) Continuous training and deployment of specialized formed-up Police Units (Special Operations Group (SOG), QRU, GSU) at the Kenyan borders. Increasingly, we shall be using more of the same specialized units in the fight against hardcore banditry. This is what has helped us stabilize places like Baragoi, which were notorious for banditry for a long time. Going forward, the deployment of the specialized units will go a long way in eradicating banditry as we fight terror. We are of the opinion that the evolving forms of banditry are moving towards terrorism. We have registered successes in Baragoi and the area between Tiaty and Elgeyo-Marakwet. We will deploy these specialized units in the fight against chronic banditry. We also have the Quick Response Unit (QRU), General Service Unit (GSU) and the Anti-Stock Theft Unit(ASTU). Generally, those are the measures. (d) Since the enactment of the Security Laws (Amendment) Act of 2014, we have enhanced multi-agency collaboration for improved efficiency. The National Intelligence Service (NIS), National Police Service, and the Kenya Defence Forces and all national security organs, work together irrespective of their specialized mandate. They must share their competencies and work towards resolving the issue of terror in our borders. We are making good progress in terms of institutional arrangement. The following are the legislative measures that have helped us to control the threat of terror: (i) Proceeds of Crime and Anti-Money Laundering Act, which was last amended one month ago. Those amendments will have positive results in the fight against terror. Soon we will designate a number of organisations that we believe are suspected of financing terror. We will follow the legal procedures. We hope to do this in the next 30 to 60 days. (ii) Prevention of Terrorism Act, 2012. This Act has helped us detain hardcore suspects of terror longer than necessary to process them within the law. (iii) Security Laws (Amendment) Act, 2014. (iv) Amendments to the Anti-Narcotics Act. (v) Amendments to the Refugee Act. (vi) Amendments to NGO's Act. (v) Amendments to the Firearm's Act, to control the proliferation of small arms and light weapons (vi) Amendments to the Kenya Citizenship and Immigration Act. This makes it impossible for foreigners to infiltrate our country and cause terror. We have also enhanced local and international collaboration and partnership through multi-agency taskforces, especially the Joint Terrorism Task Force. Of course, we have enhanced information sharing mechanisms, financial regulation by the Central Bank of Kenya (CBK), deployment of modern technology in policing, including the use of Integrated Command Centre (IC3), the increasing use of drones, especially now with the police equipment modernization programme and facial and motor vehicle recognition capabilities."
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