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Hours be­fore the State of Emer­gency (SoE) was set to ex­pire to­day, po­lice in­ves­ti­ga­tors took cus­tody of 11 peo­ple who had been held un­der a Pre­ven­tive De­ten­tion Or­der (PDO), fol­low­ing re­vo­ca­tion or­ders signed yes­ter­day.

This group, which in­clud­ed two fe­males, are to be charged with a se­ries of gang-re­lat­ed of­fences, con­spir­a­cy to mur­der, and sev­er­al of­fences un­der the Mis­cel­la­neous Act of 2019.

The de­tainees had been in­car­cer­at­ed at the East­ern Cor­rec­tion­al and Re­ha­bil­i­ta­tion Cen­tre (ECRC), San­ta Rosa, af­ter they were ar­rest­ed by of­fi­cers dur­ing the SoE, which ran from De­cem­ber 30, 2024, to April 13, 2025.