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    "id": 519109,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Bowen",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "David Kangongo Bowen",
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    "content": "service for five years. He has enough experience to become the second Inspector-General of Police under the new Constitution. Academically, you can see from the Committee Report that he has two Masters Degrees. As this House seeks to approve the new Inspector-General of Police we need to address some serious issues within the National Police Service. First, there is need for harmonisation and a good working relationship between the National Police Service (NPS) and the National Police Service Commission (NPSC). The former Inspector- General of Police, Mr. Kimaiyo, did not fail to provide security to Kenyans, or to check the runaway insecurity, which was experienced in the country. It was because of some of the laws provided for two centres of power. These are two commands by the National Police Service (NPS) and the National Police Service Commission (NPSC). These two offices need to work together for the benefit of Kenyans, and for the security of this country to be improved. When you come to the budgetary allocation to the NPS they do not have their own vote. The police money is managed by the Office of the President (OP). We have seen massive corruption emanating from the Office of the President. This is the time this House needs to amend the law, so that the police can have their own budgetary allocation administered by their own officers. The mega corruption in this country, including Anglo Leasing, emanated from the Office of the President in the guise of buying security equipment. You are talking of billions of shillings lost through Anglo Leasing. If you go to several constituencies across this country, there are no police stations, or even a single vehicle. As we approve the new Inspector-General of Police, he should go to office with his budgetary allocation. Secondly is about the training of the police. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, we saw what happened in Samburu and Kapedo. We are looking at young officers who went to school in Nairobi. Their parents could be Members of Parliament, and so the young guys are taken to join the police force. They end up at Embakasi for training as police officers. After graduation, these young officers are taken to areas they do not know. The temperatures in the first place are too high for them in those areas. In Kapedo, temperatures hit 37 degrees Celsius. Remember we are talking about a young man from Nairobi who was trained in Embakasi and he is sent to Kapedo. The new Inspector-General of Police, after he takes office should look afresh at the training of police officers. We want to see officers go for practicals in areas like Kapedo. This is so that they familiarize themselves with terrains in such areas and be able to protect themselves. When the 10,000 recruits were told that they had been employed by the National Police Service Commission, some of the young men went ahead and married their girlfriends. This was because they were ready to go for training and had to leave their wives at home. We are now seeing another arm of security called IPOA taking another arm of Government, that is the National Police Service Commission to court and using public money. These young men bought clothes, boxes and so on. Parents spent millions of shillings to shop for them in readiness for joining college. Now there is somebody saying that these recruits should be turned away. As the new Inspector-General of Police comes in, the 10,000 recruits need to be given a chance to go to the police college, so that they can be trained to serve this country. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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