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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Kubai Iringo",
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    "content": "will run there. If we give them the right and necessary equipment and ammunition to do their work, I strongly believe that they will remain in the police force. Equally, we should also have some terms. Once you train them, you also need to have an agreement on why you have trained them. We should tell them that we trained them because we wanted them to work in the police force, in certain departments and their services should be seen to be offered within a certain period because money was spent in their training. If you are trained and by the time you finish your training you are already looking for a job out there, it becomes an expense to the taxpayer. It will also be a loss to the police force. We should have a policy to the effect that once a police officer has been trained in a certain line of duty he or she needs to offer his or her service there until a given period is over before moving out. We have a similar policy in the armed forces where once one has been trained as an officer in the armed forces, he or she cannot just walk out and do other jobs elsewhere. You have to offer your services. I used to work in a bank some years back and the bank used to train us. Once you were trained, you had to sign an agreement with the bank that you would not leave that bank until you worked for it for four years after the training. This is because already the bank had put in some money to train you. Therefore, you need to render services to pay back that institution. This should happen in the police force. Once an officer has been trained, he or she should render his or her services for some time before he or she leaves. The Kavuludi team in the Police Service Commission should not be sitting there harassing police officers in vetting rooms by asking them how many children and houses they have and how they acquired that goat or shamba. Those are trivialities. They should come up with a policy in terms of how they can keep the police officers comfortable in their jobs so that they can render the maximum of what they can offer. We have had cases of police officers, mostly the Administration Police Officers killing themselves. Unfortunately, we do not get to know why they do so. But if you go to the root cause of the matter, you might find that it is because of frustrations. Maybe they cannot even feed their families. Maybe they are bodyguards to some officers including the Members of Parliament, but where they sleep or what they eat, God knows. They get frustrated and instead of killing other people, they kill themselves. We should investigate why they are demoralised to that extent. Are they remunerated well? My colleagues have echoed it here and I will repeat that where these police officers sleep is pathetic. If you visit Utawala Quarters, you will find that two officers sleep in the same house which has one sitting room and one kitchen. It is only the bedrooms which are separate. This is the case and yet these officers have families. I have a friend who is almost my age mate, a grandfather, but when I visited him I was shocked by where he sleeps. When the wife visits, I do not know where she also sleeps. I find it quite weird. Therefore, the Budget we allocate to the Ministry of Interior and Co-ordination of National Government or the police force should be tailored to support our officers morally. Once we train them and support them morally, I strongly believe they will offer better services to this country. They will secure this country. You do not expect somebody to dig or farm when they are hungry. When you go to the farm, you just doze or sit down to rest because you do not have the energy. Equally, if you do not know where the next term’s fees for your child will come from; when you do not know when you are going to buy the next pair of shoes and you know that you needed to buy a cow but you cannot even afford a goat, you find that there is no need of working. 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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