DURING the month of January 2011, the joint police/military taskforce conducted 619 operations including raids, searches, vehicle check points, curfews and cordons and searches.

Seven hundred persons were detained and processed by detectives from several police divisions across the island. Of these 700 persons, 99 were arrested including 11 persons wanted by the police for various crimes. The other persons arrested are being interviewed.

Eleven illegal guns and 172 rounds of assorted ammunition were seized by members of the taskforce during their various operations in January.

Source: http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/