Maloney residents try to adjust to heightened police presence

De­spite their un­ease with a cur­few and 24/7 po­lice ex­er­cis­es in their com­mu­ni­ty, sev­er­al Mal­oney res­i­dents say they are do­ing their best to ad­just to the cur­rent se­cu­ri­ty arrange­ments, while al­so call­ing for more peo­ple-cen­tered polic­ing tech­niques.

The call comes days af­ter the com­mu­ni­ty was of­fi­cial­ly de­clared a closed area un­der the Spe­cial Op­er­a­tions Act.

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Ac­cord­ing to Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er Al­lis­ter Gue­var­ro, the de­ci­sion to de­ploy po­lice to the com­mu­ni­ty was made to pre­vent an es­ca­la­tion of gang vi­o­lence in the neigh­bour­hood, in the wake of a shoot­ing in­volv­ing at­ten­dees of a par­ty at one of the build­ings in the Hous­ing De­vel­op­ment Cor­po­ra­tion (HDC) project on Mon­day.