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A po­lice of­fi­cer from a spe­cial­ist unit is among two peo­ple ar­rest­ed yes­ter­day, af­ter a Pre­ven­tive De­ten­tion Or­der (PDO) was is­sued for their al­leged as­so­ci­a­tion with mem­bers of an Or­gan­ised Crime Group (OCG).

Guardian Me­dia un­der­stands the ar­rests were con­nect­ed to the on­go­ing in­ves­ti­ga­tion in­to busi­ness­man Dan­ny Guer­ra, who was de­tained via a PDO on No­vem­ber 19 for a plot to as­sas­si­nate a Gov­ern­ment min­is­ter.

Law en­force­ment of­fi­cials re­vealed the of­fi­cer was ar­rest­ed by per­son­nel from the Spe­cial In­ves­ti­ga­tions Unit (SIU), and tak­en to the East­ern Cor­rec­tion­al Re­ha­bil­i­ta­tion Cen­tre (ECRC) in San­ta Rosa, where he re­mained last night.