Sev­en­teen peo­ple have been named in a mass de­ten­tion or­der is­sued overnight un­der the Emer­gency Pow­ers Reg­u­la­tions, the largest such use of the pow­er since the start of the cur­rent State of Emer­gency (SoE).

The lat­est or­ders, signed by Min­is­ter of Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Roger Alexan­der, in­clude two women and three Venezue­lan na­tion­als.

The or­ders state the in­di­vid­u­als were iden­ti­fied through “con­fi­den­tial in­tel­li­gence” and that de­ten­tion is nec­es­sary to pre­vent acts “prej­u­di­cial to pub­lic safe­ty.”