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    "id": 610929,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Iringo",
    "speaker_title": "",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 1574,
        "legal_name": "Cyprian Kubai Iringo",
        "slug": "cyprian-kubai-iringo"
    },
    "content": "deploy soldiers or officers giving priority to where these incidents occur. You may find a roadblock on a highway with 10 to 20 police officers and yet people’s cows are stolen, houses are robbed and other crimes are happening here and there. You find 10 or 20 police officers manning a roadblock, five sitting on this side of the road and five on the other side. You find 10 banks in close proximity to each other and each has got two to three officers whereas they can use four officers to guard all those banks. I feel we misallocate the human resource which we have in the police. This problem of insecurity has even affected the education of our children and jobs of some breadwinners like teachers. The North Eastern children are not learning because their teachers are in the streets making noise because of the same insecurity. It is high time the forces or the powers that be, including our own committees in Parliament, sat down and put their feet together. Every other day the Government is sending vehicles to the police officers and Deputy County Commissioners. However, you find those vehicles parked at the station because they have no fuel. I wonder why you would give a vehicle and you do not give fuel. For example, today the Officer Commanding Police Division (OCPD) in my constituency called requesting me to give him some Kshs10,000 to fuel his Land Cruiser so that he can take these criminals to court or visit a certain crime scene. So, why do you give a vehicle without fuel? These things could be prioritised so that once you give a vehicle it is put into proper use. Let us redeploy our personnel correctly. Let us give the resources required for the police officers. Let us recruit more police officers. Let the"
}