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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Mwamkale",
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        "legal_name": "William Kamoti Mwamkale",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for this opportunity. I rise to support this Motion. From the outset, I join my colleagues in congratulating Hon. John Waluke for bringing this Motion to this House. It is, indeed, true that training of experts particularly in the field of document examination, money laundering, cybercrime and forensics consume a lot of taxpayers’ money. Most of this training is never undertaken within the Republic. It is mostly offered in developed countries. Many of them are taken to Israel, Germany, USA and United Kingdom (UK) for this training. It is, therefore, an expensive endeavor for the country and it consumes taxpayers’ money. Indeed, we expect value for the money that we spend to train these officers. For those who have been in courts, we have seen many cases being lost. Many crimes nowadays, particularly cybercrime or fraud require expert document examiners. Unless we have these experts in plenty and have good document examiners, we are going to lose these cases. Because criminals know that it will not be easy to prosecute and find them guilty, we are going to have an upsurge of crime as we are experiencing now. This is the case and yet we are spending taxpayers’ money to train these officers. It is high time we peg that training and expenditure to some period of time. If we spend taxpayers’ money to take them for training, they must be made to remain on the job and serve wananchi despite there being greener pastures. That is because it is the taxpayers who have spent their money to have them trained in those fields. I appreciate and thank the Member who has brought the amendment. We have witnessed an exodus of officers, particularly those who have undergone the training, going out to look for greener pastures. Why is that so? It is because of the welfare aspect. We must appreciate that even now we are losing the war on insecurity simply because of the welfare aspect. If we are to take security seriously, we must start looking at the well-being of our officers. When we train them, we should appreciate that, that training adds value to their education and their lives and immediately they come back they must be given promotions. If we are to welcome those officers immediately they come back from the training with promotions, most of them would remain in the police force. It is high time we looked into the welfare aspect. Let there be promotions even for those who have not gone for such expert training. It is high we have a process of how one can know and be guaranteed a promotion. As I speak, there are officers who are now inspectors simply because their bosses, under whom they are working, like them. Some went to see a boss and were promoted. That is a very bad process and it must change. Otherwise, we are going to demoralize our officers and as a result we cannot expect to win the war on insecurity. The housing aspect is something that must be looked into. This country has witnessed our officers shooting and killing themselves. We have seen suicide cases and people wiping out their families and even colleagues. All this is happening because of the environment in which they find themselves. Officers are people who work overtime. Some work overnight. You cannot expect married officers to share houses with bachelors. That is what is happening. Anybody can predict that, that kind of environment encourages promiscuity and adultery. As a result of that, 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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