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Out­go­ing Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley says fol­low­ing reg­u­lar as­sess­ments re­gard­ing the ef­fec­tive­ness of the cur­rent State of Emer­gency (SoE), he is not an­tic­i­pat­ing a fur­ther ex­ten­sion.

“I don’t ex­pect that we would be re­ly­ing much more on that ap­proach be­cause the po­lice would have been seen to be do­ing cer­tain things and now we can con­tin­ue along cer­tain lines with­out an emer­gency,” Row­ley said dur­ing a sit-down in­ter­view with jour­nal­ists at White­hall, Port-of-Spain, on Tues­day.

He said Gov­ern­ment had utilised the spe­cial pow­ers un­der the SoE, which be­gan on De­cem­ber 30 and was ex­tend­ed to a three-month pe­ri­od af­ter Par­lia­ment ap­proval, to take de­ci­sive ac­tion against crime and it had been strate­gic. He added that he ex­pects the po­lice to en­deav­our now to put an end to crim­i­nal gang ac­tiv­i­ties.