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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Munya",
    "speaker_title": "The Assistant for East African Community",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Joseph Konzolo Munyao",
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    "content": " Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I would also like to take this opportunity to thank the Minister for doing a very good job on this very complicated subject of transforming our Police Force into a Police Service. He has done a good job, and we need to thank him. I do not want to repeat what other hon. Members have said. I would particularly like to appreciate the creation of the County Policing Authority, which will bring in synergy between the National Government and the county governments in providing policing services at the grassroots level, in the county governments. I am sure that this was, again, a very difficult area to legislate on but the Minister has worked on it very well and brought up a structure which provides synergy, and not conflict; between the National Government and the county governments. That is why we are suggesting that when other legislations relating to conflict resolution and policing are brought, it would be very useful to bring in the reforms of the Provincial Administration, if it will be there, because the Constitution insists that the Provincial Administration must be reformed to accord with the county governments to. We would like such legislation to, again, create synergy between those departments, so that they can be able to work very well. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, the issue of the National Police Service is also another very noble idea that will help us, especially in times of emergency, and especially in our border areas, where our citizens are many times attacked by militias from outside countries. We will be able to mobilise our National Police Reservists to compliment the regular police in dealing with external forces that threaten the security of our country, especially threats which are not necessarily by foreign governments but by amorphous groups that come into our country to either loot our resources or kill our citizens. So, the National Police Reservists will be a very key component in policing our borders and making our border communities secure. This will be very important in even restoring the national faith that many of our border communities have lost when they were attacked all the time and the Government was never there to take care of them. It is also important to point out the fact that the National Police Reservists have been operating underground. In the past, nobody knew how they were recruited and what the selection criteria was. Now that this is recognized in law and criteria is set and transparency will be taken when recruiting them, we are sure they will be a very useful force to help in policing our country. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, without much ado I want to support this extremely important Bill that is going to transform the police force into a good service for the country."
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