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With a division of 27 Government MPs for and 11 Opposition MPs against, the Law Reform Zones of Special Operations, Special Security and Community Development Measures Act, 2026, was passed in the Lower House of Parliament.
The intended law would give Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar the power to declare specified zones to be heavily policed on the advice of the Commissioner of Police and Chief of Defence Staff.
Persad-Bissessar would be able to designate special zones in areas where there are “reasonable grounds” to believe criminality, gang violence, or threats to public order are widespread.
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