The police say recent island-wide security forces operations have had the desired result, and more will be implemented.

The police-military operations were part of a major effort to curtail crime, and in particular murders, which are on the increase.

Scores of persons were arrested in the operations, which occurred in the 19 police geographic divisions.

Head of the Criminal Investigation Branch, Assistant Commissioner Ealan Powell, says the police saw a lull in criminal activities, over the period of the operations.

Two police officers killed a week apart over the past two weeks, and a number of killings in western parishes, have seen the number of murders gone pass 6 hundred, since the start of the year.