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Af­ter three break-ins this week, a Christ­mas Day op­er­a­tion led by Min­is­ter of Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Roger Alexan­der brought re­sults for the po­lice, af­ter four ban­dits were ar­rest­ed while at­tempt­ing to rob the Of­fice of Dis­as­ter Pre­pared­ness and Man­age­ment (ODPM) fa­cil­i­ty in Mau­si­ca.

In an in­ter­view with Guardian Me­dia yes­ter­day, Alexan­der said po­lice now in­tend to take de­ci­sive ac­tion against any­one steal­ing gov­ern­ment prop­er­ty. He said he re­ceived the in­for­ma­tion about the rob­bery in the ear­ly hours of yes­ter­day (Christ­mas Day).

“Two o’clock in the morn­ing, we get a call. We start­ed to mo­bilise; I spoke to (In­spec­tor Ish­mael) Pitt, and I spoke to an of­fi­cer, who then start­ed to co­or­di­nate. We start­ed to move, we went to the ground, we blocked cer­tain en­trances, and as a re­sult of that, that came about... We in­tend to take some dras­tic, lis­ten to the words, you know, dras­tic mea­sures against per­sons who at­tempt that go­ing for­ward af­ter to­day,” Alexan­der said.