Days af­ter a three-month ex­ten­sion to the State of Emer­gency (SoE) was an­nounced, 16 pre­ven­ta­tive de­ten­tion or­ders were is­sued for peo­ple iden­ti­fied as be­ing part of or­gan­ised crim­i­nal ac­tiv­i­ty, as crime-fight­ing ef­forts con­tin­ue na­tion­wide.

Dur­ing a sit­ting of the Low­er House on Fri­day, a mo­tion to ex­tend the SoE for a sec­ond time was passed with 27 gov­ern­ment votes in favour and 12 op­po­si­tion votes against.

The SoE was de­clared on Ju­ly 18 and an­nounced by Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er Al­lis­ter Gue­var­ro, who at the time said in­tel­li­gence sug­gest­ed that crim­i­nal gangs had formed an al­liance to tar­get gov­ern­ment and law en­force­ment of­fi­cials.