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The Parliamentary Committee on National Security and Foreign Affairs has recommended that government should revise legal instruments such as the Penal code, criminal procedure code, the public order Act and the Road Traffic Act.
The committee says this is in order to bring the law enforcement agencies up to date with modern tenets of law enforcement and democracy, as espoused in the Constitution of Zambia Act No. 1 of 2016.
Moving the motion for Parliament to adopt the report of the committee for the first session of the twelfth national assembly, Committee Chairperson Dr. Martin Malama also recommended that the government should increase the budgetary allocation to the law enforcement agencies and release the funds in good time.
Dr. Malama says the committee is further recommending that the government builds new correctional facilities and that in places where rundown structures still exist, new and modern ones should be built.
He says the committee also recommended that the government should construct more juvenile reformatory schools for both boys and girls.
And seconding the motion, Lundazi Member of Parliament Lawrence Nyirenda said it has been established that the appointments of two deputy Inspector Generals of Police and two deputy commissioners of the Zambia Correctional Service have brought about infighting.
Mr Nyirenda has since recommended reverting to the old system where both the Police and Correctional service had one second in command.
Mr Nyirenda says the two deputies in both the Zambia Police and Zambia Correctional Service are concentrating on buying loyalty from the officers at the expense of helping their superiors.
And debating on the motion, Mafinga PF Member of Parliament Jacob Siwale called on government to scrap off the traffic department in the police service saying it is too corrupt and adding no value.