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Min­is­ter of Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty Mar­vin Gon­za­les says the State of Emer­gency (SoE) was a “suc­cess,” as he re­vealed 14 peo­ple were charged as it came to an end at mid­night Sun­day.

While he was un­able to pro­vide any spe­cif­ic de­tails on who was charged or what charges un­der the An­ti-Gang leg­is­la­tion were laid, Gon­za­les said de­tainees were fac­ing sev­er­al of­fences. The 14 were among 53 peo­ple held in con­nec­tion with sus­pect­ed gang ac­tiv­i­ty dur­ing the SoE. Thir­ty-nine of them were re­leased from the Max­i­mum Se­cu­ri­ty Prison and the East­ern Cor­rec­tion­al Re­ha­bil­i­ta­tion Cen­tre hours be­fore the SoE came to and.

The SoE was de­clared on De­cem­ber 30, 2024, in a bid to quell a se­ries of gang-re­lat­ed mur­ders and shoot­ings in and around Port-of-Spain at the time.