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    "id": 718845,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/718845/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Ms.) Ng’etich",
    "speaker_title": "",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 511,
        "legal_name": "Cecilia Chelangat Ngetich",
        "slug": "cecilia-chelangat-ngetich"
    },
    "content": "This investigative service is usually done by the police but we are aware that they have general duties and heavy responsibilities, hence lacking capacity and specialised training to carry out investigations. While these coroners are not necessarily medical officers, they will have investigative skills. Where they will require further investigations, they call in the services of a pathologist or a medical officer to prove their case. Since they will have the power to even order exhumation of bodies, I believe even those who would have been killed and buried secretly can finalise investigations by exhuming the bodies and allowing detailed investigative services. I have seen the functions and powers of the Coroners Service and I just want to add to them because they may delegate to other officers. One of the functions which I do not see here is public awareness on how to handle a crime scene. Sometimes you find that good Samaritans go to a crime scene wanting to help but in the process they tamper with evidence. Sometimes a girl may be raped and killed and you find the body being taken to the mortuary without evidence being collected from the crime scene. On public awareness about people being allowed to---"
}