A prison of­fi­cer is among the lat­est batch of peo­ple who were served with Pre­ven­tive De­ten­tion Or­ders (PDOs) un­der the State of Emer­gency (SoE).

The de­ten­tion of prison of­fi­cer Keron Lewis was gazetted yes­ter­day, along with or­ders for 23 oth­er peo­ple, all signed off on by Min­is­ter of Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Roger Alexan­der.

Ac­cord­ing to the PDO, Lewis, al­so known as “Diesel,” has al­leged­ly been iden­ti­fied as a key fa­cil­i­ta­tor in the co­or­di­na­tion of crim­i­nal ac­tiv­i­ties be­tween in­car­cer­at­ed in­di­vid­u­als and ex­ter­nal ac­tors. It is said he is ac­tive­ly in­volved in the traf­fick­ing of pro­hib­it­ed ar­ti­cles in­to a cor­rec­tion­al fa­cil­i­ty and trans­mit­ting in­struc­tions and or­ders from in­car­cer­at­ed per­sons. The PDO said the de­tainee’s ac­tiv­i­ties fa­cil­i­tat­ed the ex­pan­sion of or­gan­ised crime, in­clud­ing kid­nap­pings and vi­o­lent of­fences, which ex­posed the pub­lic to sig­nif­i­cant risk of harm.