Mihuki,<br>in as much it sounds like a good idea to get us off paying excessive taxes, i think the idea of police competing to provide security services is not a very good idea given other attendant issues,<br><br>for a force accused of conniving with criminals, it may want to tread carefully before engaging in b usiness,<br><br>we are the people who say that government should not engage in business, and even in this case, it should not, imagine if the police was to engage in some unfair business practices that some companies engage in, in order to undercut others?<br><br>ofcourse police boses would say that it compromises their neutrality in case of any felony<br><br><br><b><i>Michuki Mwangi &lt;michuki@kenic.or.ke&gt;</i></b> wrote:<blockquote class="replbq" style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> <br><br>Alex Gakuru wrote:<br>&gt; <br>&gt; Efficiency model is superb, but maybe essential public<br>&gt; services are best left
 to specialised persons? <br><br>Simply put for such to work i would expect there be TOR's and this<br>issues would have to be addressed to the BPO in a very precise manner.<br>Specialization is profession hence the BPO would seek for professionals<br>to do the work (even if it means he will pay the the police training<br>dept to train its personnel). The important aspect is that the service<br>is delivered.<br><br><br>BTW,<br>&gt; were police landlines fully restored? if not, who then<br>&gt; will settle the BPO bills?<br>&gt; <br><br>There is no business model around this services - hence unless we pay<br>more taxes it will always be as has been. There are many creative ways<br>to generate extra revenues around this services that would stir<br>additional revenues and make them sustainable.<br><br>Off the top of my head, maybe its in place but the police force should<br>have a commercial department that does<br><br>  a) Security training (Basic to advanced i.e evasive
 driving, self<br>defense etc)<br>  b) Private Security details high and low level detail.(compete with KK<br>security for jobs like providing security services to the US embassy)<br>  c) Forensics to other countries<br>  d) Fund raising initiatives - with giveaways stamps, police sourv's et al<br>  e) the list can go on and on ..<br><br><br>I have nothing against the security companies but considering how<br>successful they have been, it means that if the police force would share<br>in a piece of that cake, there would be extra revenue to sustain some of<br>the key critical services for the 'mwananchi'.<br><br>Regards,<br><br>-- <br>Michuki Mwangi<br>KENIC<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>kictanet mailing list<br>kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke<br>http://lists.kictanet.or.ke/mailman/listinfo/kictanet<br><br>This message was sent to: rebeccawanjiku@yahoo.com<br>Unsubscribe or change your options at
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