00:00 Mr. Figueroa believes there is a deliberate plan by some to destabilize the country.
00:06 He says the authorities lost control by failing to deal with the threat of transnational crime
00:13 a long time ago.
00:14 And this threat, this transnational organized crime threat is now in its fifth evolution.
00:23 And we are yet to create a national security apparatus that could have handled the first
00:29 four evolutionary phases.
00:33 That is how backward we are.
00:34 And it's only talk, talk, talk, talk, talk, political spin, political spin, political
00:39 spin, political spin.
00:41 But that is not going to stop an alternate lifestyle that has taken root in this country
00:49 and is now socializing generation after generation.
00:55 He tells us, unless the authorities can show there are stiff penalties for this behavior,
01:01 the youth will continue to be mesmerized.
01:03 It's the dream of wealth and the dream of bling and the dream of badness.
01:10 And what are you offering to engage with this alternate lifestyle and this alternate mechanism
01:18 of life?
01:19 What are you offering?
01:26 Constipated judiciary, overflowing Romaniards, a policing system that is dismally poor on
01:30 detection.
01:34 So what we are offering young people to do to not be attracted by the streets is not
01:43 working.
01:44 He notes statements made by the police commissioner at an interfaith service on Sunday, again
01:50 calling for God's help in dealing with criminal elements.
01:54 Mrs. Ulla Christopher is quoted as saying, the police can come up with whatever strategy,
02:00 but unless we enlist the help of God, we will be working in vain.
02:05 That is, on my part, an event that exhibited desperation yesterday.
02:13 It exhibited desperation because policing is boots on the ground.
02:21 Intelligence, penetration, creating a case, getting witnesses, and having that case quickly
02:30 tried and justice dispensed.
02:33 That is the only way you can engage with this threat.
02:39 Not with a customs and excise in the present condition it is in.
02:45 Not with an immigration department in the present condition in which it is in.
02:50 Not with an SSA that is totally silent.
02:53 Nicole M Romani, TV6 News.
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