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    "id": 736311,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Manje",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 1669,
        "legal_name": "Joseph Wathigo Manje",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me this chance to support this important amendment. Just as food is a basic need for human life, security is a basic need for a country to develop. It is such basic that if a country does not have good security, it will hardly develop because investors cannot invest in that country. Our police forces have the responsibility of enforcing security in our country. Therefore, it is paramount that they are properly compensated in case of injury or death in service. They should be paid good salaries and allowances for the good work they do. We cannot forget that the enforcement of the law is basically in the hands of our police officers. They patrol our areas to make sure that they deter criminals or would-be robbers. They also document and give evidence in courts of law to make sure that criminals are apprehended. That is also basic to them. We cannot forget that they are supposed to arrest criminals, some of whom are armed. Therefore, they put their lives in danger and they should be compensated in case of injury or death in the line of duty. Having said that, we should also look at how we recruit police officers. We are still in the basics of how we recruited police officers during the colonial times where we checked the height of the officers to be. We should modernise the system of recruitment. We should take the basics like whether one is intelligent enough to collect information. Times are changing from when police were associated with their physical attributes to being associated with knowledge and skills and we need to change how we recruit them. When recruiting police officers like is happening in the country, and you check things like the dental formula, it beats the purpose. There has been some information going on in the social media. If you recruit based on the dental formula as if the policemen will go to compete on how to crash maize or something close to 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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