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    "id": 909948,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kiambaa, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Paul Koinange",
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        "legal_name": "Paul Koinange",
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    "content": "The State Departments for Interior Correctional Services, Immigration Citizen Services as well as the National Police Service Commission and the Independent Policing Oversight Authority fall under the Governance, Justice, Law and Order Sector (GJLOS) under the Medium-Term Expenditure Framework (MTEF) sector. This sector is critical as an enabler of the Big Four Agenda as pronounced by His Excellency the President. Similarly, the Presidency and the Public Service Commission which fall under the Public Administration and International Relations (PAIR) are critical for providing overall leadership in implementing the third Medium-Term programmes and projects of Vision 2030. I am happy to note that significant resources have been proposed in this budget towards improving our security environment. The said Department for Interior has a proposed allocation of Kshs132.2 billion which will go towards the implementation of reforms targeted at boosting security services, personnel, and welfare that will guarantee Kenya’s safety. Our Committee noted that, the strategy on security for the Medium-Term lays emphasis on improving welfare, strengthening coordination among security agencies, scaling up investments towards modernisation, enhancing security operations and investigations, building professional capacity of the service and strengthening the partnership with communities and leaders. In this regard, the Government will continue to modernise the National Police Service in order to ensure that lives and properties of Kenyans are adequately protected. Already, the Government has enrolled new Police Service Standing Orders, Career Progression Guidelines and Basic Training Curriculum for police officers. The Government has also improved the welfare of police and prison officers through provision of house allowances to all officers and a comprehensive insurance cover and medical insurance. To modernise security, the Government has in the recent years invested in better equipment, training and working tools as well as strengthened coordination among security agencies. To further enhance security for all Kenyans, the Government will build on the ongoing security reforms by scaling up investment in security infrastructures such as installation of surveillance and control systems in major cities and towns, equipping of forensic laboratories and provision of police patrol vehicles. Going forward, the Government will facilitate research on informed ways of fighting crime by identifying ways of combating emerging forms of crime that are technologically aided such as cyber-crime, money laundering, terrorism financing, human trafficking, conflicts around the discovery of natural resources and internationally organised crime. We all appreciate the fact that economic crimes have reached unprecedented levels in recent times which has forced our security officers to even go beyond our borders to find these new threats to our national security. To effectively fight economic crimes and corruption, our Police Service must be properly resourced. The Departmental Committee on Defence and Foreign Relations that I chair reallocated money to other departments which in our assessment were under funded. Indeed, the Budget and Appropriations Committee has agreed with us according to this Report. Key among them included: i) Additional Kshs300 million to civil registration of which Kshs100 million will go towards digitalisation of records of births and deaths, and Kshs200 million will go towards the construction of an office building. The digitalisation of births and death certificates is critical to the security of our country. Without such records being stored in digital format, we may not tell exactly who is and who is not a 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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