The Greater Ari­ma Cham­ber of Com­merce is call­ing for a se­ries of strength­ened na­tion­al se­cu­ri­ty mea­sures, say­ing the cur­rent cli­mate re­quires more ad­vanced sys­tems and mod­ern en­force­ment tools.

In a state­ment, the Cham­ber out­lined sev­er­al pro­pos­als aimed at im­prov­ing crime de­tec­tion, en­force­ment and the ad­min­is­tra­tion of jus­tice.

Among its rec­om­men­da­tions is the rapid ex­pan­sion of the na­tion­al foren­sic DNA data­base, which it said cur­rent­ly holds few­er than 1,500 sam­ples, a fig­ure it de­scribed as in­ad­e­quate for mod­ern crim­i­nal in­ves­ti­ga­tions.