In a se­ries of re­cent an­ti-crime op­er­a­tions across T&T, the T&T Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) ar­rest­ed 12 sus­pects and seized sev­er­al firearms and a sig­nif­i­cant quan­ti­ty of nar­cotics, in­clud­ing co­caine val­ued at $19.2 mil­lion.

The lat­est op­er­a­tions took place in var­i­ous di­vi­sions.

Ear­ly Fri­day morn­ing, be­tween 1 am and 4 am, of­fi­cers from the Tu­na­puna Crim­i­nal In­ves­ti­ga­tions De­part­ment (CID), along­side sup­port from the North-Cen­tral Di­vi­sion Task Force (NCDTF) and oth­er units, ex­e­cut­ed a house search in Bam­boo Set­tle­ment #3, Val­sayn.

The raid led to the dis­cov­ery of an air ri­fle, a loaded pis­tol, and 13 rounds of am­mu­ni­tion, re­sult­ing in the ar­rest of three in­di­vid­u­als found on the premis­es. In the North­ern Di­vi­sion, po­lice con­duct­ed a co­or­di­nat­ed op­er­a­tion on Thurs­day night in­to the ear­ly hours of Fri­day, un­der the di­rec­tion of As­sis­tant Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice Rishi Singh, Se­nior Su­per­in­ten­dent May­nard-Wil­son, and Su­per­in­ten­dent Guel­mo.

Re­spond­ing to re­ports of as­sault and rob­bery in D’Abadie, of­fi­cers in­ter­cept­ed a Nis­san Almera with four male oc­cu­pants, aged 18 to 25.

Af­ter search­ing the ve­hi­cle, an im­i­ta­tion firearm and stolen items from the rob­bery were found, lead­ing to the ar­rest of all four sus­pects.

The most sub­stan­tial nar­cotics seizure took place Thurs­day evening along the Sir Solomon Ho­choy High­way near Grand Bazaar. Of­fi­cers stopped two ve­hi­cles, un­cov­er­ing 13.8 kilo­grams of co­caine with a street val­ue of $19,236,096. Three male sus­pects, aged 19 to 36, all from Fyz­abad, were de­tained in con­nec­tion with the find. Ad­di­tion­al op­er­a­tions in the Cen­tral and To­ba­go Di­vi­sions saw fur­ther suc­cess.

In Cen­tral, the Gang Unit re­spond­ed to a re­port of men bran­dish­ing firearms in Flana­gin Town. Of­fi­cers seized a loaded Smith and Wes­son pis­tol and ar­rest­ed a 20-year-old sus­pect. In To­ba­go, a search of a Mit­subishi flatbed truck at the Scar­bor­ough Port on Thurs­day evening un­cov­ered 2.8 kilo­grams of com­pressed cannabis. The dis­cov­ery led to the ar­rest of a 24-year-old man.

In­ves­ti­ga­tions in­to these in­ci­dents are on­go­ing.