Violent crime has leapt by 44.5 percent in the last seven years but Police have vowed to keep up pressure on street criminals.

And the latest figures show robbery has gone up 48.3 percent in the past year while wounding has gone up ten percent.

Acting Commissioner Carlton Adams said Police were undeterred by the crime trends - much of which he blamed on a hardcore of repeat offenders.

Asked about Operation Safer Streets, which began in January with Police targeting crime hotspots, Mr. Adams said: "Operation Safer Streets will continue for the foreseeable future.

"There's a mindset in our organisation - a lot of behaviour that's gone on is going to be challenged, it's going to be dealt with, it won't be tolerated.

"The full statistics, revealed at a press conference yesterday, show residential burglary has gone up 75.5 percent since 2006 - a factor partly explained on house breaking, which had been defined as burglary in the day time, being merged statistically with burglary which had previously only covered only offences from 6 p.m. to 6 a.m.

Between 2000 and 2007 total reported burglaries have increased 97 percent.

Theft also rose 21.6 percent while thefts from vehicles have gone up 43 percent in 12 months.

Mr. Adams said criminals often turned to crime quickly upon release as they went back to drug habits.

"People come out of prison OK - they are clean, shortly thereafter we start to see offences being committed.

"It is very obvious some of these individuals are not only repeating offences - it's in the same neighbourhoods, against the same houses and against the same commercial premises.

"Computer software mapping the patterns are being studied to allow more officers to patrol areas being hit, say Police.

Acting Assistant Commissioner Michael Jackman said one person recently before the courts had admitted more than 100 offences.

And Police recovered a haul of more than $400,000 in electrical goods.

Police said people were all too willing to buy second-hand goods at vast discounts without thinking where they had come from.

Householders were urged to mark their goods in case they were stolen and then recovered while Police also urged retailers to keep records of serial numbers.

Other trends noted in the latest numbers include a 119 percent increase in taking a car without the owners' consent

Crime overall has risen 8.1 percent in the last year and 52.6 percent since the millennium.

Opposition Public Safety spokesman Michael Dunkley said growing crime was affecting locals, tourist and international business executives alike

He said Police needed to be given the tools to properly tackle crime but instead they struggled with a lack of manpower and deteriorating facilities.

"We need to make sure they have the resources to deal with it right away. Right now they are behind the eight ball.

"Recidivism rates were on the increase said Mr. Dunkley who called for Government to make sure programmes were running in prison to help reform prisoners.

He said such schemes should be mandatory with no early release for people who did not complete them.