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Tuesday, July 8, 2025

Security status now up to amber

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As the killers of spe­cial pros­e­cu­tor Dana See­ta­hal, SC, re­main on the loose, the coun­try's na­tion­al se­cu­ri­ty sta­tus has been height­ened and has been changed from green to am­ber to hin­der fur­ther threats to na­tion­al se­cu­ri­ty.Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Gary Grif­fith said yes­ter­day that was a re­sult of the events lead­ing to See­ta­hal's mur­der and in keep­ing with the guide­lines laid out in the na­tion­al alert state, pub­lic warn­ing and in­for­ma­tion pol­i­cy.He added: "The sig­nif­i­cance of im­ple­ment­ing this state of alert was to stymie any pos­si­ble threat to na­tion­al se­cu­ri­ty and key pub­lic of­fi­cials. This was as­sessed as a pre­cau­tion­ary mea­sure in the event that oth­er state of­fi­cials, mem­bers of the Ju­di­cia­ry or mem­bers of Gov­ern­ment may al­so have been tar­get­ed.

"In this re­gard, se­cu­ri­ty agen­cies were in­formed to take mea­sures against plau­si­ble risks of a haz­ard or threat, in­clud­ing the use of means that are mod­er­ate­ly dis­rup­tive to nor­mal pub­lic ac­tiv­i­ties, while prepar­ing to switch to or­ange or red on short no­tice, if the con­di­tions sur­round­ing the threat changed." He said law en­force­ment of­fi­cers had com­bined forces and were do­ing all in their pow­er to bring the per­pe­tra­tors to jus­tice but he could not say if the po­lice had made any break­through in the in­ves­ti­ga­tion in­to See­ta­hal's mur­der.Say­ing they had "a lot of work to do," Grif­fith said: "There is the footage from the CCTV cam­era. We have to find out whether she may have had any threats in the last few days or weeks which we may not know of and oth­er things to be ex­am­ined."

Grif­fith al­so called on peo­ple not to pan­ic, in­sist­ing the sit­u­a­tion was un­der con­trol."There will be in­creased air, land and mar­itime pa­trols in all ar­eas of in­ter­est. There will al­so be stop-and-search teams and in­creased road­blocks."We can­not and should not draw con­clu­sion based on per­cep­tion or based on her ca­reer. We must re­main calm be­cause the po­lice are do­ing their job and I have every con­fi­dence in them," he added.Urg­ing peo­ple to give in­for­ma­tion, he said it would be treat­ed in the strictest of con­fi­den­tial­i­ty.Peo­ple can call 511, 999, Crime Stop­pers at 800-8477 or the NOC at 627-0408.


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