Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty pol­i­cy ad­vis­er Pro­fes­sor Ray­mond Clay­ton is ap­peal­ing to both the Gov­ern­ment and Op­po­si­tion to set aside their dif­fer­ences and al­low the Zone of Spe­cial Op­er­a­tions to be used ef­fec­tive­ly.

Speak­ing with Guardian Me­dia yes­ter­day, Clay­ton, who ad­vised the Ja­maican Gov­ern­ment to im­ple­ment the pol­i­cy, which is still in ef­fect, said that for it to work, there needs to be com­plete buy-in, as it re­quires decades-long im­ple­men­ta­tion.

“This is a long-term com­mit­ment. And you’re mea­sur­ing not in terms of months or years; you’re re­al­ly talk­ing about sev­er­al decades. It may take some­thing like 20 years to ac­tu­al­ly re­solve the so­cial prob­lems be­cause they are deeply em­bed­ded; they are root­ed in these com­mu­ni­ties, and they can­not be fixed overnight.”