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    "id": 563163,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/563163/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. A.B. Duale",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 15,
        "legal_name": "Aden Bare Duale",
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    "content": "Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Clause 40 of the Bill requires PSSA to keep a register of all persons licenced and registered as private security providers under this Act. Today, if the Inspector-General of Police (I-GP), other national security armed agencies and the Director- General of Kenya's National Intelligence Service (NIS) wants to find out the number of private security service guards, they can have that information. They will have their history, bio-data and finger prints. The envisaged authority will have that data-bank to provide and say: “So and so works for this authority. These are his finger prints. This is his information and this is the bio- data.” Under Clause 41, all private security service providers are required to keep a register of all employed persons. Individual private security service providers must also keep that register. Part VI mandates all private security service providers to co-operate with national security organs in the maintenance of law and order. All private security service providers must be answerable to national security organs and structures which are in place - if this law is passed - for us to maintain law and order. Under Clause 45(2), the Cabinet Secretary (CS) for the Ministry of Interior and Coordination of National Government, in consultation with the I-GP and the authority, will come up with regulations. That service industry must have certain “dos” and “do nots”. Using the law provided in terms of regulations, the CS for the Ministry of Interior and Coordination of National Government will bring regulations to the National Assembly once this Bill comes becomes law. Part VII of this Bill relates to the general provisions of the private security service providers. Those powers include:- Search, arrest, record and temporarily withhold identification documents. It is not the case now. If a private security firm and its employees stumbles upon a criminal offence being committed, this law gives them the power to search, arrest, record and temporarily withhold identification documents in consultation with the other arms of our security that have been given those powers under the law. A security guard will not say: “I saw a terrorist passing by here! I did not say anything.” They will be under obligation to make sure that, that does not happen. Part VIII provides for equipment and other tools of trade that may be used by private security service providers. This is very important. As it is now, a security guard ordered to guard a godown in Industrial Area and yet, he does not even have a rungu. He does not have anything! He has a coat, uniform, shed and he earns Kshs3,000, when that company is paid Kshs20,000. We need to create a law to help our people so that if he is a night guard, he must have enough equipment to protect himself and the property he is guarding. Clause 50 prohibits security service providers from using uniforms or branding their vehicles with colours similar to those of the National Police Service or any of the disciplined forces. This is very clear. If you look around now, there are people who give their security firms uniforms similar to those of the police and you cannot differentiate them at night. They then rob people. Those who have been robbed cannot tell whether they were robbed by a police officer or a security guard. This law under Clause 50 prohibits private security service providers from using uniforms or any branding of their vehicles or their premises with any of the colours that are used by the disciplined forces - that is Kenya Defence Forces (KDF), Kenya Police, General Service Unit (GSU) Kenya Prisons Service (KPS), Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) and many others, including the Kenya Forest Service (KFS). 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."
}