Operation Jaguar needs the cooperation of the public

major david jones

While it has been dubbed a success, it is not yet certain for how much longer the operation will be sustained.  The one hundred or so soldiers and police personnel that have been on the beat as part of Operation Jaguar have only decreased by a small number.  But during the three week span, they have been able to seize over seven thousand dollars in suspected illicit activity, over two thousand five hundred grams of cannabis, and five kilos of cocaine.  Where the operation did not yield a high stash in was the seizure of weapons, with only the collection of one nine millimeter pistol, one point twenty-two pistol, a homemade shotgun and a sizeable amount of assorted ammunition.  During that time, twenty four traffic tickets were also issued for road violations, three hundred and ninety-eight vehicles were searched, and almost two thousand people stopped and search as well.  But only forty-three arrests were made.  It is an effort that needs the public support says Major David Jones.

Major David Jones, B.D.F.

“We really need the cooperation of the public or any entity out there that can give us assistance in relations to where these guns are being hidden or any weapons that can be used, or criminals that are conducting these acts. If they give us that information, then we can assist and we can move forward from there. It is going to take a good strategy to say ok this is the way we are going to pull out and this is what is going to replace it or what is going to replace operation jaguar when we actually pull out. But it is a measuring stick as to the way forward. And so the horizon, we are not sure when or what time we are going to move out, but we are aware that eventually we will move out.”

Operation Jaguar is being sustained through the budget provided to the Police and B.D.F.  A.C.P. Aragon says that when the project hits the one month mark next week, they will revise whether there needs to be a supplementary budget for it and whether or not it will need a follow-up effort to replace it.  In the meantime, if you see a crime in effect or know of one being planned you can call the Jaguar hotline at: 633-0425 or any of the other police hotline numbers.