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Fol­low­ing the week­end killings of three peo­ple, in­clud­ing two in his Tu­na­puna con­stituen­cy, Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Roger Alexan­der said he is not sat­is­fied with the cur­rent mur­der rate.

Alexan­der said the gov­ern­ment’s pro­posed Zones of Spe­cial Op­er­a­tions (ZOSO) strat­e­gy could have re­duced vi­o­lent crime and po­ten­tial­ly pre­vent­ed some of the re­cent mur­ders. On Sat­ur­day, Cur­tis “Bird” Pierre was shot out­side a Val­sayn food strip restau­rant, while Je­sus Sergeant and Kyle Alexan­der were killed hours lat­er on El Do­ra­do Road in Tu­na­puna.

“I am in no way sat­is­fied, but I know the po­lice ser­vice are do­ing their best,” he said, not­ing bud­get con­straints in­her­it­ed from pre­vi­ous ad­min­is­tra­tions. He al­so crit­i­cised the Op­po­si­tion for not sup­port­ing the ZOSO bill in Par­lia­ment.