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    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Ms.) Florence Mutua",
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        "legal_name": "Florence Mwikali Mutua",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me a chance to contribute to this important Motion. I stand to support it. A police officer’s first order of business is to serve and protect. Police officers play a very central role in the law enforcement system. They monitor criminal activity, respond to emergency calls when necessary, investigate crimes and even testify in court as and when necessary. That said, police officers are human beings and we have seen the structures that they live in. I cannot even call them houses because they are just structures. Police officers need the basics. They need a decent house over their heads. They need decent houses where they can have a quality family environment. Most of all, they also need a decent salary. Police officers protect us, but who protects them and their families? You have seen the structures that police officers sleep in. I said I will not call them houses. Some of them even share the structures. You will find three or four officers sharing one structure. For example, if one of them has a spouse, that becomes a psychological torture for the rest of the officers. Overtime, it becomes very dangerous for the officer who shares the structure with those other officers. We need the police officers’ incentives to be seriously considered. They should be reviewed also to motivate them. Those people who have studied human resource management know that if you motivate staff, they work even harder. If you motivate police officers, they will work harder for this country. They will stop demanding kitu kidogo from suspects. They will even stop taking little monies from the traffic offenders and stop destroying criminal evidence. Sometimes, they do that for money purposes. Some of the police officers even work with the criminal gangs. They will stop all those things if they are given the motivation to work for this country. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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