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    "content": "up a gun. I want to thank Sen. (Prof.) Lonyangapuo for that foresight, the people who end up being reservists must be vetted. The vetting must not take place in Nairobi or be done by the Inspector-General of Police and so on. The communities should be empowered to identify the kind of people to protect them and they can trust them with death-causing weapons. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I believe that there will be need in every country and, if possible, in every sub-county to have a vetting committee that is overly composed of local people and key stakeholders in the locality so that we remove the Nairobi mentality from this process. Other than that, we are hoping that we would have these reservists in other counties in our country. There is also the urban angle; the role of reservists in the urban settings. In the 1980s, there were certain reservists who were more feared than the Officer Commanding Police Division (OCPD) of Central Police Station or the Provincial Police Officer (PPO) of Nairobi. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, in the rural areas, the kind of people we are likely to get as reservists are people who would depend on allowances. However, both out there in the counties and in urban areas, we need volunteers. These are people who are doing other things like teaching or business people, but who can actually be trusted to help and support the work of the Kenya Police Service. We used to have Mr. Patrick Shaw, who single handedly ran out all the dreaded criminals out of Nairobi. He was a big guy who was a teacher in Starehe Boys. He was tall and big and when criminals heard that Shaw was in the neighbourhood, they would take cover. I am told he was so dreaded that some of them committed suicide when they would hear he was in the neighbourhood. I hear the former Minister for Internal Security, G.G. Kariuki, confirming. I am sure he is aware of what Patrick Shaw did in Nairobi. Those are the kind of things we want because security, first of all, is a consciousness. That is why training of police officers and reservists---"
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