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While he is un­able to say for cer­tain whether the on­go­ing State of Emer­gency (SoE) will be ex­tend­ed, Min­is­ter of Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Roger Alexan­der says more long-term re­sults are ex­pect­ed through con­tin­ued law en­force­ment ac­tiv­i­ties.

The SoE was de­clared on Ju­ly 18 in re­sponse to a pur­port­ed plot by crim­i­nals to tar­get high-rank­ing of­fi­cials in the Gov­ern­ment, ju­di­cia­ry and na­tion­al se­cu­ri­ty. It was orig­i­nal­ly ex­pect­ed to end af­ter 15 days of its de­c­la­ra­tion, but an ex­ten­sion of three months was grant­ed on Ju­ly 28. The SoE is there­fore ex­pect­ed to end in late Oc­to­ber.

Speak­ing with Guardian Me­dia yes­ter­day, Alexan­der said he could not say for cer­tain whether a sec­ond ex­ten­sion of the SoE was pos­si­ble, but main­tained that law en­force­ment want­ed to achieve more per­ma­nent re­sults in dis­rupt­ing crim­i­nal net­works.