While mur­ders con­tin­ue un­abat­ed dur­ing the State of Emer­gency (SoE), Min­is­ter in the Min­istry of Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty, Kei­th Scot­land, says one tan­gi­ble ben­e­fit has been a 45 per cent re­duc­tion in the homi­cide rate com­pared to this time last year.

Speak­ing to re­porters af­ter cut­ting the rib­bon to re­open the Bras­so Po­lice Sta­tion on Wednes­day, Scot­land de­clined to re­veal the spe­cif­ic ac­tions that led to this re­duc­tion, say­ing he did not wish to dis­close the method­ol­o­gy. How­ev­er, he em­pha­sised that se­ri­ous and more in­ten­sive po­lice work, along with greater col­lab­o­ra­tion among law en­force­ment agen­cies, had con­tributed to the de­cline.

"That is a tan­gi­ble ben­e­fit. Now, we want more tan­gi­ble ben­e­fits, and we want them to be achieved faster. Even though progress is in­cre­men­tal, it is still not at a sat­is­fac­to­ry lev­el. How­ev­er, it re­mains a tan­gi­ble ben­e­fit, and we want more," Scot­land said.