Company leadership demonstrated tactical restraint when they chose to use only non-lethal munitions and tactics to disperse the crowd of mostly peaceful demonstrators, with suspected insurgent agitators mixed in.

Surveillance of major routes, patrols, and raids on suspected insurgents were stepped up.

Soldiers and police have sometimes been indiscriminate when pursuing suspected insurgents, resulting in civilian collateral damage.

This recruitment drive was more successful than its predecessors and also detained 30 suspected insurgents.

The emergency decree empowers state authorities to search and arrest suspected insurgents without warrants.