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    "content": "police force which is specially trained in civil clothes to look after security in the line in which police reservists were used before. Madam Temporary Speaker, in France, for example, there exists something called the prefecture which is like a neighborhood with a first line of administration and security. In the United States of America (USA), you also have somebody called the Sheriff who is like a local head of police in a locality and the Sheriff’s office is an extremely important office. If you remember during the civil rights movement, there were Sheriffs in the southern states who terrorized a lot of blacks. In fact, they had a very bad name. In the line that Sen. Ong’era spoke, we should not be afraid to devolve security effectively to devolved government because the line of security as in other jurisdictions begins from the local level; the village or the county. In actual fact, our county government is so well structured. You have the county level, the sub-county level, the ward level and the village level with a village council. I think the village council with five elders is going to be so important in not just ensuring democracy and administration at the village level, but also security. It is at that level that we need to recruit a civilian police force that will work with the village elders and the village administrators to ensure that everybody in the neighborhood is known. Like in Tanzania, when you come in from elsewhere as a visitor, you must register yourself with the village council so that it is known that there is visitor in this village. This will enable us to control the movement of criminals who come and harbor themselves with the so called relatives and begin terrorizing people at night. Madam Temporary Speaker, you remember recently we had a rogue fellow in Kisumu County, somewhere in Kano who was killing everybody left, right and centre. He was seducing women, taking them home as if he is the Casanova who has just come around and the next day the women are strangled and they die. He was going around in a flashy way and everybody thought he was a wonderful man and yet he was a murderer. So, this structure of devolution, if we infuse in it the idea of civilian security, it would be very important. That is why I support this Motion. I support this Motion because we must rethink our concept of security. We must not think that security can only be done by people in uniform carrying guns; these will be people who have been trained, and who will mix with the civilian population and interact with the local administration structures and ensure that security is maintained in our villages. If we do not do this, we shall continue having a tremendous burden on the members of the uniformed police force who are trained in a certain way. They are doing a tremendous job, but we need to help them by modernizing that system and ensuring that security is not just an element of being in uniform. It is an element of recognizing all those who would break the law for selfish ends and disturb the safety and security of others for selfish ends using the gun or other means. That kind of person should be known ahead of time before the crime is committed by a kind of folk which is close enough to that person at any level so that we have proper security. This will also apply to towns, in particular. In urban centres, people live close enough, but strangely although close enough, they hardly know each other because of the nature of urban life. It is in urban centres where this devolved government is going to be very important because people will be forced for the first time to know each other when they elect village"
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