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    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Dr.) Khalwale",
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        "legal_name": "Bonny Khalwale",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir. I rise to support this Bill mainly because over and above the reasons that Sen. (Prof.) Lonyangapuo has justified, I am also persuaded that this is a Motion that will go a long way in boosting the insecurity in our villages, counties and our country in general. If we are candid enough to accept the reality, the fact is that lack of security has killed the economy of this country. For instance, everywhere you go, the tourism industry which was the number one foreign exchange earner has been killed by insecurity. I will not repeat myself in what is happening in Five Star, Four Star and other hotels at the Coast region as evidenced by what Sen. Wetangula said. These are enough reasons for us to support Senators and Members of the National Assembly who have progressive thinking towards improving our security situation in this country. Our economy has died. Agriculture is a major player. However, today, if you go to the critical areas of sugar industry, you will find that insecurity has caused it to collapse. What am I talking about? Police officers who man the border points look the other way when contraband sugar is imported into the country at the expense of the local produce. As if that is not enough, lack of security in this country is wiping out the population of our elephants because we do not have sufficient policy to ensure that poachers and criminals are contained. Our economy has collapsed because of insecurity due to terrorism. We all know that in all border points, we have the Kenya Anti Terrorism Police Unit officers. However, maybe the design of that unit should be changed. For example, if you go to Mandera or Garissa, you should have KPRs who come from the local community working alongside with the regular police together with the anti-terrorist police units. Those are the people who can pick out youth who are participating in AlShabaab who purport to come from the Kenya Somali side when they are non-Somalis. The issue of policing in places like the US, Great Britain and other areas where it has been successful - I am reminded of a few weeks ago when I was in London - you will not see the military in the streets of London. In fact, you see very few police officers. Why is this? This is because they have succeeded in marrying policing with police intelligence. Therefore, you may have two police officers plying along a street of two kilometres. However, as long as there is sufficient intelligence, through communication, these two officers are adequately prepared when crime is about to take place. It is for this reason that I support this Bill because it is attempting to amend sub section 7 of the National Police Service Act that provides that after someone has joined the KPR, he can be trained. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, we want that training not just to be limited on how to keep and use a firearm, but also, in fact, principally to improve the aspect of intelligence gathering by KPRs. I want to vehemently disagree with the distinguished 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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