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"content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker, for giving me the opportunity to support the National Police Service Commission (Amendment) Bill. Clause 12 of the Bill addresses needy issues affecting our officers in line of duty. We are not new to uncertain news that run on our screens every now and even on the social media. Police officers take away their lives or those of innocent people as a point of expression of depression, dissatisfaction or frustration. When all these issues are put together, they draw us back to the knowledge that police officers are human beings like every other person. We all know that we gave ourselves a new Constitution in 2010. However, we are still working on it to ensure that we implement it to the letter. The amendment in this Bill takes us to Article 43 of the Constitution on economic and social rights of Kenyans. As I have said, police officers are Kenyans like everybody else. This Article of the Constitution enumerates a list of rights every Kenyan is entitled to. The first one is the issue of quality healthcare which is not only limited to the aspect of illness and medical attention to ailments, but also includes squarely mental illness. Frustrations are demonstrated by officers where a junior officer opens fire on their colleagues or seniors. As we all know, operations of officers in uniform is a question of orders, instructions and directives. It is a top-down operation. Sometimes instructions are given to people who are already sick. There is no person or quota that is able to evaluate, look at and check the well-being of these people. Sometimes they are given a huge assignment that sounds like a punishment because they have already lost hope in life. It leads to what we are witnessing now. We are losing a lot of officers. Officers kill their families, including innocent children, just to express their frustration. After realising they have done the worst, they take away their lives. We lose a lot."
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"content": "This particular amendment seeks to establish psychosocial support centres in every county. As Hon. Gichimu said, we need to look beyond counties. Some counties like Marsabit and Isiolo are vast. It is difficult to connect from one far end of the sub-county to the county headquarters. They are two worlds apart. It is time to support such an amendment. Let us secure the lives of the people we expect to secure our lives. Let us ensure they are well and their issues are addressed. We should not only address sickness and mental illness. We also need to 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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"content": "understand the causes of these illnesses. One of the causes are the financial or economic challenges they go through. Some of them get employed when they are young only to realise that their expenditure and income do not match. Why? Because during training, there is inadequate time to be taken through financial training. The proposed centres should provide a mechanism of continuous training to ensure that the officers are sensitised on financial management and how to integrate their families in financial decisions so that they can move together."
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"content": "Some officers take loans, misuse the money and then the loaners come for their necks. Nowadays there are shylocks. Some officers commit everything to shylocks to the extent they realise they are naked. They have no meaning. Their families need school fees and medical care, but there is no money. What remains? They indulge in alcoholism and in the long run, they lose the meaning of life and die. The reason is due to lack of experts to continuously engage them. Officers who go through problems should get a moment to exchange experiences with others who have gone through the same challenges so that they can realise that life has meaning and whatever they are going through is not unique to them."
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"content": "I support this particular amendment and congratulate Hon. Peter Masara for thinking of solving problems of our police officers. I know my colleagues on the other side. The other day, they were singing maandamano and they know the problems they take police officers through. I am happy today because they realise that police officers are our children and we need to cater for their interests. When the officers facilitate their demonstrations, they are also affected by tear gas, stoning and get frustrated. When there are demonstrations, police officers stay all night in the field without food or enough sleep yet they are human beings. We also need to resource police officers well. This House needs to provide sufficient resources for that particular department. It would be meaningless to establish a centre without enough money, personnel and experts. As we discuss the BPS and future budgets, let us give this department the attention it deserves. Thank you so much. I support this particular amendment."
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"content": " Hon. Kosgei, Nominated Member."
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"content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. From the outset, I wish to support this amendment Bill by my friend, Hon. Masara. It touches on very important members of our society. We cannot overemphasise the important role that police officers play. When we talk about psychosocial support, we are addressing their emotional, social lives and mental well-being. We are also referring to their spiritual needs because they are human beings. We must build in them resilience, hope and a sense of national pride. This House should treat it as one of the very important aspects of our society as it touches on our security, both personal and internal security within the country. The police officers have four basic roles all over the world; to enforce the law, prevent or deter crime, provide emergency response, and provide support system services required by the society. In their line of duty, they face circumstances that affect them as a people, while managing through their roles in the field. My colleagues have contributed and prosecuted in detail some of the areas that need to be addressed when we talk about county centres. I want to talk about our attitude towards police officers as citizens of this country. We need to look at them and appreciate that they are doing what we would have done individually, which is to provide security for ourselves, our children, properties and our country. Some groups or social movements address the police as enemies of progress and an impediment to freedom. I take this opportunity to implore us that, as we think about supporting the police, we must change our attitude towards them. After Independence, we used to think of the police being the force of colonial masters. Growing up, we saw police as enemies because they represented a regime that oppressed us. However, we are an independent country and we must be proud of our country. What we see 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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"content": "in the global north is how they respect their police officers in the line of duty as they fulfil their roles and implement the law. We must cultivate a culture of pride in our own country and respect for the law. With those remarks, Hon. Temporary Speaker, I support the Bill."
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"content": " The Member of Parliament for Keiyo South, Hon. Gideon Kimaiyo."
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