Twen­ty-three peo­ple, in­clud­ing two sons of for­mer al­leged gang and com­mu­ni­ty leader Sel­wyn “Robo­cop” Alex­is, have been de­tained un­der Per­son­al De­ten­tion Or­ders (PDOs) is­sued un­der the Emer­gency Pow­ers Reg­u­la­tions, as se­cu­ri­ty forces con­tin­ue a sweep­ing crack­down on or­gan­ised crim­i­nal net­works op­er­at­ing un­der the State of Emer­gency (SoE).

The or­ders were is­sued yes­ter­day and in­clud­ed two women and two Venezue­lan na­tion­als.

Among those de­tained are Ker­ron Isi­ah Alex­is, iden­ti­fied as the al­leged leader of the Rat­ed R Gang, and his broth­er Kern Alex­is. Both are de­scribed in in­tel­li­gence re­ports as key fig­ures in a vi­o­lent crim­i­nal net­work linked to shoot­ings, drug traf­fick­ing and co­or­di­nat­ed at­tacks in­volv­ing high-pow­ered firearms.