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"content": "That is the kind of life we are leading and we must live with this situation somehow. I think our police force is over stretched, both in numbers and equipment. We must find another way; we have to be very creative. I want to thank the professor for being very creative by bringing up this Motion, preparing us for a Bill that will eventually make this possible. Mr. Speaker, Sir, Nairobi has what I will now call “old crime.” These are burglary, mugging, theft, robbery, rape, pilfering and all those kind of things. But there is also the new crime that is terrorism, which we must also deal with. I know that to deal with terrorism, we will rely more on intelligence than on brute force. The people who work for Nairobi City as of now are people who have worked in this city for a long time; they know their city very well, they know the people in this city better than we do and they transact with them on a daily basis. I think if co-opted into helping the national police in doing some of the things that the police are grappling with, they could do it better. They only need equipment, training and help that will make them deal with the 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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