Re­gion­al se­cu­ri­ty ex­pert Dr Garvin Heer­ah has de­scribed the re­port­ed breach at the San Fer­nan­do Mu­nic­i­pal Po­lice Sta­tion, which re­sult­ed in the death of a po­lice of­fi­cer and the theft of firearms and am­mu­ni­tion from the sta­tion’s vault, as a “deeply dis­turb­ing and high­ly sen­si­tive na­tion­al se­cu­ri­ty in­ci­dent.”

Heer­ah, who is the for­mer ex­ec­u­tive di­rec­tor of the Na­tion­al Op­er­a­tions Cen­tre (NOC), called for the mat­ter to be treat­ed with the “ut­most in­ves­tiga­tive cau­tion, as pre­ma­ture con­clu­sions could com­pro­mise crit­i­cal lines of in­quiry.”

Ad­dress­ing the in­ci­dent, Heer­ah said it had raised “se­ri­ous con­cerns re­gard­ing the in­tegri­ty and re­silience of lay­ered se­cu­ri­ty sys­tems at law en­force­ment fa­cil­i­ties.”