00:00Nicholas is not convinced the state of emergency is only about fighting crime.
00:06He is suggesting that there may be more to the move than meets the eye.
00:11You've been saying that you know where the gangs are,
00:14you know how many gangs are operating.
00:16For the last few years, the police have obviously been feeding you
00:21at the National Security Council level with information.
00:25But you haven't seen action with regards to this information.
00:30All of a sudden, you have a state of emergency that covers a period
00:36when you are most likely to transition and call an election.
00:41So it is for the population to see,
00:46it is for the population to understand what is really going on.
00:50Nicholas says so far no one has been charged during the state of emergency.
00:56He describes the SOE as a plaster for a gaping sore.
01:01So as far as all of those statistics are concerned, no one has been charged.
01:05Yes.
01:06And if you are going to detain people, if you are going to arrest people,
01:11if you are going to take people out of the system for a temporary period of time
01:16without charging, without prosecuting, without jailing,
01:21then inevitably they are going to be coming back on the streets.
01:26So when the period has ended, they come back on the streets
01:30to do exactly what they were doing before they were taken off the streets.
01:35He remains adamant the current administration has an ulterior motive.
01:41The administration has been made to feel fair,
01:47to feel that the crime is out of control,
01:51and all of a sudden, at the beginning of an election year,
01:56where you are about to transition from one leader to another,
02:01you have the intelligence to go after gangs, to go after criminals.
02:07The three-month extension will see the state of emergency continue to early April 2025.
02:14Nicole M Romany, TV6 News.
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