In a se­ries of op­er­a­tions over the past 24 hours, of­fi­cers from the South­ern Di­vi­sion have made three ar­rests, seized a firearm and am­mu­ni­tion, and re­cov­ered a stolen ve­hi­cle.

The TTPS says be­tween 8 am and 4 pm on 9th Sep­tem­ber 2024, the South­ern Di­vi­sion Task Force (SDTF) con­duct­ed an in­tel­li­gence-led ex­er­cise in Ridge­wood Gar­dens, Gol­con­da, San Fer­nan­do. 

Dur­ing this op­er­a­tion, of­fi­cers in­ter­cept­ed a ve­hi­cle dri­ven by a 35-year-old man from Mon Re­pos. 

The of­fi­cers searched the ve­hi­cle and re­port­ed­ly found a 9mm Beretta se­mi-au­to­mat­ic pis­tol and 14 rounds of 9mm am­mu­ni­tion.

The firearm and am­mu­ni­tion were seized, and the dri­ver was ar­rest­ed.

Lat­er, from 8 pm to 2 am, of­fi­cers from the

San Fer­nan­do Po­lice Sta­tion car­ried out an an­ti-crime ex­er­cise in the San Fer­nan­do and La Ro­maine dis­tricts. While pa­trolling Pota­to Street, La Ro­maine, they stopped a Nis­san Ti­i­da dri­ven by a 30- 30-year-old man from Bat­too Av­enue, Mara­bel­la. The dri­ver was un­able

to pro­duce a valid dri­ving per­mit. He was ar­rest­ed and charged with dri­ving with­out a per­mit and with­out a valid cer­tifi­cate of in­sur­ance.

Dur­ing the same op­er­a­tion, of­fi­cers al­so stopped a black Nis­san pan­el van dri­ven by a 32-year-old man from Waller­field, Ari­ma.

Up­on re­quest, the dri­ver re­fused to pro­vide his dri­ver's per­mit and cer­tifi­cate of in­sur­ance. Fur­ther in­ves­ti­ga­tion re­vealed that the ve­hi­cle was fit­ted with false iden­ti­fi­ca­tion plates and had been re­port­ed stolen in Aranguez on 3rd Sep­tem­ber 2024. The ve­hi­cle was seized, and the dri­ver was ar­rest­ed and is cur­rent­ly as­sist­ing with fur­ther en­quiries.