Police: Operation Resilience nets 50 guns in one month. BUDHOO... the police have found weapons that were used to commit as many as 30 murders

THE police say they have seized a total of 50 guns over the past month under its new anti-crime initiative, Operation resilience.

"The seizure is the largest made in the island (in a single month) over the last three years," head of the Mobile Reserve, Assistant Commissioner of Police Winchroy Budhoo, told the Jamaica Observer yesterday.

The two guns, a .45 and a 9mm,
 that were recovered in August Town

 

"Based on tests, the police have found weapons that were used to commit as many as 30 murders," he further said of the iniative which was launched recently in response to the continued bloodshed in West Kingston. Additionally, he said that more than 100 people have been arrested under the initiative, while another 600 were held, processed and released.

The latest gun find occurred yesterday, where four weapons, including an M16 rifle, were retrieved during operations in August, St Andrew, and Spanish Town in St Catherine. The police said that the powerful M 16 rifle, along with a handgun, was found during a search in the volatile March Pen Road community in the old capital, while a .45 and a 9mm gun were seized in Bedward Gardens in August Town. Read more: