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    "id": 825660,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/825660/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "South Mugirango, KNC",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Silvanus Onyiego",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 1417,
        "legal_name": "Silvanus Osoro Onyiego",
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    "content": "Even as we talk about the operations of the police, we also need to empower the IPOA to look at the plight of police officers. It is indeed true that some police officers are suffering. You can understand this by looking at some police officers’ lines, like Administration Police (AP) lines. I look at police officers in my constituency. You may need some AP officers to man a certain area but you cannot provide for them. You cannot pay their rent. You have not built houses for them. There is no recurrent expenditure that is so frequent. You tell police officers to go and man a certain area. The IPOA should equally look at the plight of police officers. Some of them are really suffering. How do you place a police officer who has a family in one room? A police officer has a family with two children and then he is given a bachelor to stay with. The two officers partition that room using a curtain. We are killing family values. We kill the morale of police officers and that of their families. Some of these things occur because of transfers. In as much as it is a disciplined force, we equally need to be human. A senior officer disagrees with a junior officer today and he decides to write a letter immediately to transfer this officer to a far- flung place because, perhaps, the senior officer has interest in the junior officer’s wife or husband."
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