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    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/402998/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Waiganjo",
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        "legal_name": "John Muriithi Waiganjo",
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    "content": "We know there have been a lot of problems within the force. We know that there have even been institutional crimes within the force itself and I think that is why we need to have the commission whose mandate is to regulate. Let us not consolidate power within the Inspector General of Police because that is what we seem to be doing. The Constitution envisaged a situation whereby the National Police Service Commission which is a constitutional creation would regulate, participate and hold the police accountable within a legal framework. However, what we have now are amendments which purport to remove the investigative powers of the commission. I mean, you remove the criminal investigations from the commission and the commission is supposed to investigate the members of the force, and the Constitution envisaged that it should stop being a force but a service. Who shall then investigate the police officers when they commit crimes like extrajudicial killings and torture? I mean, those are important functions of this Commission. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, so any amendment that attempts to remove the role of criminal investigations from the commission is a bad amendment. Even if the Committee has done a good job, we must refuse those amendments that appear to be taking us back from where we are coming from. Again, the mandate of the Commission is recruitment."
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