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    "id": 389675,
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    "content": "We must appreciate that these home guards are very important people because they are the first respondents when a community is attacked. When an incident occurs at a distance of almost 200 kilometres from the police station, the KPRs are the only people who can immediately deal with the situation. They play a very critical role if they are better utilized and trained so that their response is not on another community, but on an inter-community approach. The other issue is about conservancies. The conservancies have similar groups called scouts. Some of the conservancies have armories that are not under any supervision of any Government department or any Officer Commanding Police Division (OCPD). At times, the weapons have been used in the wrong way. So, the home guard issue should be dealt with at the same time as that of the scouts, so that they are all trained and supervised by the Government. They should have an Officer Commanding Station (OCS) or OCPD commanding them. The armories should be under the Government and not under the custody of the conservancy which may favour one community over the other. Therefore, the weapons become available to scouts who carry out cattle rustling. With that, I support that home guards play a very critical role. They are the first respondents to crime when the police are very far. Secondly, it is important that they should identify themselves with the Government by carrying a Government identity card. They also carry Government guns and should have some form of identity. They should also be given food so that they do not live by the guns. They should also be given uniform because at times, they end up looking like shiftas. I support."
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