Re­gion­al se­cu­ri­ty ex­pert Dr Garvin Heer­ah is urg­ing au­thor­i­ties to con­sid­er in­tro­duc­ing cur­fews fol­low­ing the ex­ten­sion of the State of Emer­gency (SoE), ar­gu­ing that stronger mea­sures are need­ed to re­gain con­trol of com­mu­ni­ties and send a clear mes­sage to crim­i­nal el­e­ments.

Speak­ing on CNC3’s The Morn­ing Brew yes­ter­day, Heer­ah said the im­pact of the SoE ap­pears to have di­min­ished, with crim­i­nals con­tin­u­ing to op­er­ate de­spite the ex­tra­or­di­nary pow­ers avail­able to law en­force­ment.

“If we are go­ing to rein­tro­duce this SoE —if we are go­ing to de­bate the ef­fec­tive­ness of hav­ing one—let us con­sid­er, this time, mea­sures such as cur­fews,” Heer­ah said.