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Only three days into the SOE, however, former gangster Clay Monsanto was executed in his yard in the Gungulung area. Over 20 gunshots were heard, and the perpetrators were said to be affiliates of the PIV gang.
In the past, the PIV have been excluded from SOE's, but when we asked the ComPol if it will now be extended to include them, he said it already does.
Chester Williams, Commissioner of Police
"So far I can say that it is going well and as much as the regulations that accompany the regulation give the police a number of powers, we have not been using these powers so if you were to move around the areas that are under state of emergency, you would see that the law abiding citizens can still move around freely as the state of emergency was not intended to disrupt the movements of law abiding people but rather for us to get a better grip on gang members who continue to demonstrate that propensity to perpetrate criminal acts. So far I can say that we have a total of 23 persons detained from Roaring Creek and Camelot and 30 from Belize City so in all we have a total of 53 persons."
