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    "id": 749762,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/749762/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Dawood",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 2572,
        "legal_name": "Abdul Rahim Dawood",
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    "content": "One of my colleagues has made a comment regarding extrajudicial killings. I believe we should not just demonise the police. Sometimes, they are in a situation where they are not sure whether the other person on the other side is carrying a real gun or a toy gun. They have to take care of themselves. We should not demonise our police force because they operate in extreme circumstances that are very hard and strenuous. We would not want to be in their position. It is completely wrong to wholly condemn the police officers. They work under very strenuous conditions. We need to motivate our police force. In the rural areas - forget the towns where they may be living in stone houses - you see them in tin sheds and you wonder how they cope with the heat like how it was a couple of months back where temperatures reached 30 degrees Celsius. In the tin shed, it can even be 40 or 45 degrees Celsius. You wonder how they live in those conditions and we still expect them to perform their duties. We should improve their living standards by providing them good housing and better salaries or wages so that they can perform what they are meant to do."
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