One of Jamaica’s foremost security experts supports Trinidad and Tobago moving towards adopting the Zone of Special Operations (ZOSO) model that helped reduce violence in some of Jamaica’s most crime-ridden communities.

This as Parliament approved a further three-month extension of Trinidad and Tobago’s state of emergency (SoE).

Professor Anthony Clayton, the lead author of Jamaica’s 2014 National Security Policy and one of the architects of the country’s “Clear, Hold and Build” security strategy, said during an interview on TV6’s Beyond the Headlines on Wednesday night that while emergency powers may temporarily suppress violence, they do not solve the underlying causes of crime.