Government is considering imposing curfews as a way of curbing escalating violence, it emerged this morning.

In the Senate, Public Safety Minister David Burch said: “The full gamut of Legislative options, including curfews, has been prepared by the Attorney General’s department and awaits a decision based on the lack of success of current operational actions.”

Sen. Burch did not elaborate further on the legislative options or how widespread any curfew might be.

At a Senate meeting earlier this week, Sen. Burch said: “Christmas should be cancelled. Maybe not cancelled, but maybe curfew for all of us. [Where you are] forced to stay in your own home and with your own families.”

Yesterday Governor Sir Richard Gozney, Premier Ewart Brown, Sen. Burch, Attorney General Kim Wilson, Commissioner of Police Michael DeSilva and Cabinet Secretary Marc Telemaque all met about the escalating gun crime that has claimed three lives in the last 13 days.

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