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    "id": 700388,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/700388/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Kubai Iringo",
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        "legal_name": "Cyprian Kubai Iringo",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. Despite the long wait, I will now contribute to this Motion. Let me thank my colleague, Hon. Mwinyi for bringing it. This document called “P3 Form” is one which is treated as sacred in the police circles to intimidate, solicit funds and to interfere with justice. We need to put these laws in order. I believe that the victims who require this document initially are traumatised, in pain or unconscious in hospital. Therefore, anybody might take advantage of that situation and make sure that the person seeking it does not get it. The law should be clear on what should be done to this document. As far as I am concerned, and through personal experience in trying to assist my constituents and friends, this document should be given free of charge by the police. That is why you can even download it. However to get an officer to fill it is a nightmare. Sometimes it is one officer designated to do the work in a police station. On the day you need a P3 Form, the officer could be attending a court case. You will also face other bottlenecks because the designated doctors who are supposed to handle these documents in a hospital are not in that hospital on that particular day. In addition, you need to pay for it in the hospital. That is why we are saying that this document should be free from the word go until victims get it into their files in the law courts, where their cases will be prosecuted. This is whether it is an accident, an injury or any other issue. You will find that because of these hurdles a victim will take a long time to get justice. If it is an animal injury or the victims are assaulted or involved in road accidents, it normally takes ages for one to get justice because of the bureaucracy. I will propose that through the Ministry of Health, a law be enacted to give proper guidelines which must be followed by the victims and those who are delivering these services. This is to the extent that there should be a timeframe within which these documents should be filed and placed where they belong. The timeframe should be from when one is injured, to the time they get a P3 Form filled by the officer in charge to the hospital, brought back for filing in court or where the claim is being done. With a timeframe of that nature, it will keep the officers on their toes to know that they should have these documents ready when they are required. 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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