Griffith, Heerah urge careful management of Special Ops permits

The ef­fec­tive­ness of any per­mit sys­tem in­tro­duced un­der the Gov­ern­ment’s new Spe­cial Op­er­a­tions leg­is­la­tion will de­pend on how pro­fes­sion­al­ly and in­tel­li­gent­ly it is ad­min­is­tered, says re­gion­al se­cu­ri­ty ex­pert Dr Garvin Heer­ah.

Speak­ing with Guardian Me­dia yes­ter­day, Heer­ah said the sys­tem must en­hance se­cu­ri­ty as au­thor­i­ties pre­pare for the pos­si­bil­i­ty of des­ig­nat­ed closed ar­eas un­der the leg­is­la­tion.

“The per­mit sys­tem must fa­cil­i­tate se­cu­ri­ty, not be­come an ad­di­tion­al source of dis­or­der, frus­tra­tion or pub­lic dis­trust,” Heer­ah said.