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Gail Alexan­der

De­fence Min­is­ter Wayne Sturge yes­ter­day de­clined to con­firm if De­fence Force sol­diers have been in­struct­ed to re­turn to base, and At­tor­ney Gen­er­al John Je­re­mie has made it clear that the State of Emer­gency ex­ten­sion is to com­plete and con­tin­ue cur­rent crit­i­cal gang dis­man­tling op­er­a­tions. As an ex­am­ple, he said de­spite the re­moval of in­mates from the pris­ons, there were re­peat­ed at­tempts to re-es­tab­lish con­tact with peo­ple on the out­side.

Sturge spoke in Par­lia­ment yes­ter­day, re­spond­ing to an Op­po­si­tion query.