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    "id": 473645,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/473645/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Gichigi",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 1909,
        "legal_name": "Samuel Kamunye Gichigi",
        "slug": "samuel-kamunye-gichigi"
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    "content": "I think the provisions that require people, who normally come into contact with victims should be retrained. Literally all the police should be retrained to know how to handle victims. Many police officers see victims as witnesses and not as victims. They will just tell you to write a statement: “Take that piece of paper and write your name and what happened.” That is it and there is no assistance that will come to that particular person. So, we need to retrain the police, the national administration officers like the chiefs and teachers to know how to handle victims. It is very painful to get information that, say, a little girl has been raped and the very people who are supposed to be giving protection and aid that particular kid are the ones who harmed her; the police help the suspect to settle the matter. It is important that we have people who are different from the police, or a special department in the police, which is going to be dealing with this area of victim protection and assistance. It should not be the ordinary police that we know. But even those ones need to be trained to distinguish between a witness and a victim."
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