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    "id": 29070,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/29070/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Midiwo",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 184,
        "legal_name": "Washington Jakoyo Midiwo",
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    "content": "Minister, I wish you could listen because you asked us to contribute. The Minister will owe a duty to this House to explain who is a police reservist and how we will equip them in terms of their operations so that Kenyans can know. We do not need another force to negate the aspirations and demoralize the police force in a way we have seen before. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, if you look at this Bill, the functions of the Administration Police (AP) and the functions of the police force are identical. Why do you need the two? We need a scenario where all officers are able to enforce the same law in a way that if I were in my village the AP - because they live in the village - can appear in court to give evidence because they are the arresting officers. We need to use this law to address simple anomalies that affect our people on a day to day basis. Right now, if an AP arrests you, they hand you over to the regular police who is not the initial respondent in a crime scene. Therefore, you end up being prosecuted by a third party. So many of our people are going to prison and languishing there because of bad and cooked up evidence by people who have not responded to specific crimes which somebody is accused of. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, something must be done in law to specifically change the attitude of the existing police force. I want to support."
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