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    "content": "walk out. This country does not have a record of its own population. It is important that we know who we are and how many we are. It is important, as a security measure that we look at the data that we have. Some countries have very good data systems. You simply have to put your finger in a screen and all your data shows itself. You do not have to carry an identity card or any document to a government office. All you need is your thumb. Once you use your thumb, all your data is displayed. It is important that we have all these data so that we ensure security. The other thing we need to look at is the mapping of our country. Try to look for somebody in Eastleigh or any town, you will find that the streets have not been named and the houses are not named too. You can easily get lost in this country. This is what criminals thrive in. Unless we address the mapping of our country, criminals will always get away with some of these issues. We have given training to our officers. However, we are expecting too much from them. We should not expect an officer who was trained in the 1970s to understand the kind of security they need to give in this age and time. It is important that we get back to the basics of the syllabus of training our security people and train the new personnel to cope with the crime and security situation in our country. Lastly, there is a lot of security equipment which is available world over which we do not have to test and discover. This has already been discovered and tested and can be used in this country to curtail the insecurity that exists. For example, there is a very simple way of stopping cattle rustling in West Pokot. My friend is always there and he talks about arming security people to go and chase the rustlers. For your information, a small diode which is placed inside the animals can track and trace every animal in West Pokot. This is a bolus, a small thing. This is technology that we can use and return ten out of ten animals that have been stolen in West Pokot. Who will dare steal an animal once they know that it will be found? We know that this technology is there. We do not have to test it because it is used everywhere, in Venezuela and Australia where there is large scale ranching of animals. The issue of rustling which costs us about 200 to 300 lives per year which we are spending about Kshs15 billion to contain can be contained by a small little diode. This is placed in the animal and it costs about US dollars 3. You do not have to place it in all animals but just a few. There is a lot of technology that this country can resort to in order to address some of the security issues in this country. The other things that causes insecurity to thrive in this country is that it is hardly possible, in this age and time, to convict a criminal. They are clever and they have very clever lawyers. One of them is here who can argue their cases and they will go through. Unless we have forensic and DNA tests done in this country, criminals will run away from justice just because we cannot convict them in a court of law since we are using old methods. This country ought to have a forensic laboratory in every county like yesterday so that we convict every person that we take to court and charge them with some offence. This is very important. The opening of boots of cars all over the place and checking of handbags can be done away with by placing simple screening machines which would show every little metal that is being carried by individuals that can be used to commit crime. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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