Deputy minister of Home Affairs Mr Hamad Masauni
Deputy Minister for Home Affairs Hamad
Yusuf Masauni said there is an acute shortage of police stations in the
country, noting, however, that the government will allocate resources to
ease the shortage on phases.
He was answering to a question by Musa
Ntimizi (Igalula-CCM), who wanted to know the government’s plan to
improve the working environment for the law enforcers. The legislator
decried the difficult working environment of police officers in the
newly established Uyui district whose police station lacks water and
housing for the officers, compelling others to put up in iron sheet
shelters.
The deputy minister said there is need
for 94 class A police stations and 382 class B police stations
countrywide, requiring 94bn/- and 191bn/-, respectively. Class A and B
are police stations that are constructed at the regional, district and
emerging town levels.
The force also needs 950bn/- for the
construction of 4,043 class C police stations. According to Masauni, the
15 buildings for police commanders require 15bn/- , with over 2.8trn/-
required for the construction of 35,000 housing units for the police
officers.
Construction of 3,500 housing units
annually for the officers is one of the strategies the government has to
curb the housing problem, with the other 4,136 houses to be constructed
under a 500 million US dollar (over 1bn/-) loan from China.
However, the construction of police
stations classes A, B and C as well as commanders’ edifices will be
effected subject to fund availability. Meanwhile, the government through
the police force has designed a number of strategies to deter its
traffic police officers from taking bribes.
The strategies, according to Mr Masauni,
include educating the officers on the harms of taking bribes as well as
briefing and debriefing them before and after going into work.
He also mentioned the release of mobile
numbers of the police leaders to the public, the notification system
through the electronic gadgets and establishment of suggestion boxes as
other strategies to fight corruption in the force
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