{"id":144517,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/144517/?format=json","text_counter":410,"type":"other","speaker_name":"","speaker_title":"","speaker":null,"content":"There was also the need then that every other criminal we came across had to be handled physically. I do not think this is a requirement any more. We need not to wrestle all criminals to the ground, so that we arrest them. We now have other ways of arresting them. A police officer does not need to be taller than all other Kenyans around him, so that he can make them obey the law. So, I think the issue of physical requirement that we need to make sure that we have 5ft 9” officers is really something that may have been there during the colonial times when one was to run after a criminal and pin him to the ground, before he could arrest him."}