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    "id": 29068,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Midiwo",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Washington Jakoyo Midiwo",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, let me thank the Minister for bringing the Bill and attempting to reform the police. It is a good attempt but I want to say that what we need, as a country, is the total overhaul of the police force. First of all, I want to say that our existing police force needs to realise that this is not a Bill that is against them, and that the time for reform is here. First of all, I want to suggest to the Minister that in this Bill we need to be very categorical. We need to make sure that we do not create confusion by creating several police forces. There is no need, after the experience that this country went through in 2007, to have more than one police force. We need one police force, and not the Administration Police Service, because it will be difficult to change the thinking of individual officers. We need to collapse the Administration Police Service and the Kenya Police Service into one police force under the command of one person. Nothing will stop the force from having different divisions. We must achieve this in this Bill. Secondly, there must be good support for the police. We must spend our money in changing the attitude of the old police force and reforming it into the new envisaged police force. This is total change. We need to do certain things that will have reforms that are fundamental in the police force. Something like the traffic division of the police is unwarranted. You do not need a traffic division in a police force. Right now as it were, out of over 200 Members here, we drive on the roads every day and see traffic police officers only stopping public service vehicles. This happens yet there is escalation in accidents. What do they stop them for? It is a tax collection organization within the police force. Every police officer that you talk to wishes that this division is abolished except for those in the traffic department. That particular division must be abolished in this Bill. Thirdly, we do not need police reservists. Create one police force. Let it have divisions. If they feel they need the CID or police reservists, plain clothes police officers, let them do it in there. The way we have known police reservists, they are a big cause of crime in this country. We do not need them. If we are going to have them, the Minister---"
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