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🚨 Ancelotti: “I don’t think this Arsenal game will impact my future at Real Madrid”.
“I’m looking forward to tomorrow. Keep your head cold, keep going, it’s not my first big game… and I hope it will NOT be the last one. I’m excited”.
The Role of the Sergent at Arms (Read SundayStandard Newspaper)
According to the Standing Orders, “Sergeant-at-Arms” means a senior officer entrusted with the security of the House, precincts of parliament and Members’ residences. The Sergeant at Arms is yet another important Parliamentary official responsible for order in the House during the proceedings. This office dates back to around 1400s and had security responsibilities. This office has roots in the medieval Europe, particularly England, where armed guards of the nobility and monarchs were responsible for enforcing laws and maintaining good order. So, over time, the role has evolved and came to be associated more with law enforcement officers of legislative assemblies. Over the years, the office has also become more and more ceremonial. Sergeant at Arms carried a mace, originally a weapon but over time it became an ornament. Whilst a mace is recognized in the Standing Orders of Parliament of Botswana, there is no actual mace, unlike say in the Parliament of South Africa and the House of Commons. It may be that in the future a mace is placed when Parliament is on.
In Botswana, the Sergeant at Arms is Mr Thapelo Sekape a former police and intelligence officer. The officer, traditionally is someone with a security background, usually a former police or army officer or even intelligence officer. The Sergeant at Arms’ role is to maintain order by ensuring that parliamentary proceedings are conducted in an orderly manner and that the rules of order and procedures and all the necessary protocols are observed by Members, staff and guests and strangers in the public gallery. The Speaker has the power and right to give orders, make decisions and enforce obedience. The Speaker does this through the Sergeant at Arms who carries out the orders of the Speaker. In the Parliament of Botswana, the Sergeant at Arms is also a security officer. Through officers subordinate to him, he or she is responsible for the security of the Chamber and its occupants, staff and guests in the Parliament precincts and residents at Parliamentary Village and its lounges. Sergeant at Arms also plays a ceremonial duty of protocol of the Speaker at ceremonial events and is generally appreciated as the symbol of authority of the Speaker. In other jurisdictions, the Sergeant at Arms also plays an administrative and service roles, for instance management of facilities and logistical assistance.
The Sergeant at Arms role is captured under Standing Order 12 which provides that the duties of the Sergeant-At-Arms shall include attending the Speaker on the latter’s entry into, and departure from, the House as well as the carrying and/or placement of the Mace. He or she leads the Speaker’s procession and announces the arrival of the Speaker to MPs and guests in the gallery so that they can accordingly welcome him or her into the Chamber. The Sergeant at Arms would announce, typically shouting like a soldier commanding a parade “Mr Speaker” or “Mr President” if it’s a ceremony conducted by the President in the Chamber. Everyone in the Chamber stands up and remains silent upon the announcement by the Sergeant at Arms of the arrival of the Speaker. According to the rules of order and procedure, the Sergeant at Arms is responsible for regulation and control of the admission of visitors and strangers to the galleries of the House and their proper and orderly conduct. This proper and orderly conduction may include but not limited to dress code, silence in the Chamber, the use of electronic devices in a manner that is appropriate and allowable and general conduct like not participating in the proceedings by laughing, commenting or any gestures. If in his or her opinion, a guest should not be allowed into the Chamber, that guest would be not permitted entry. Parliament attracts all sorts of people including interested people, merchants and sales people, students, protesters, imbeciles and all kinds of other people…