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    "id": 215095,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Awori",
    "speaker_title": "The Vice-President and Minister for Home Affairs",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Moody Arthur Awori",
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    "content": " Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I beg to reply on behalf of the Minister of State for Administration and National Security. (a) The criteria for promotion of officers in the police force is contained in the Force Standing Orders Cap.24(9). Promotion of officers is a continuous process where serving officers are selected for promotion on the basis of their qualifications, experience and to some extent seniority. In certain ranks, promotions depend upon satisfactory completion of promotional courses. However, at times, qualifications, proven merit and suitability for an existing vacancy will be given greater weight than seniority. (b) I am aware that there are officers who have served for over ten years without receiving July 5, 2007 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES 2301 any promotion. However, there are various reasons where an officer may stay in one rank for many years. These include: (i) Poor disciplinary record - this refers to indiscipline of an individual officer in the force. On this ground, an indisciplined officer may stay in one rank for a longer period than is usually the case. This usually happens to give the officer time to reform. (ii) Failing to pass the requisite police examination which individual officers are subjected to as part of the scheme of service. These include inspectorate examinations, gazetted officers examinations, English literacy examinations and technical officer examinations. (iii) Failing to sit and pass the requisite technical examination for officers in technical fields like mechanics and telecommunication technicians, would also stagnate the officers in the same rank for a very long period of time."
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