Twelve peo­ple have been ar­rest­ed, three firearms and quan­ti­ties of nar­cotics, in­clud­ing TT$19.2 mil­lion in co­caine, were seized dur­ing on­go­ing an­ti-crime op­er­a­tions across the coun­try.

In a state­ment the TTPS said in the lat­est ex­er­cise, of­fi­cers of the Tu­na­puna Crim­i­nal In­ves­ti­ga­tions De­part­ment (CID), con­duct­ed a House Search Op­er­a­tion in the North-Cen­tral Di­vi­sion (NCD), be­tween 1 am and 4 am, to­day with the as­sis­tance of the NCDTF Area West, NCDTF Area East, and the Arou­ca and St. Joseph CIDs.

A search of a house at Bam­boo Set­tle­ment #3, Val­sayn re­port­ed­ly re­sult­ed in the dis­cov­ery of one air ri­fle and one pis­tol, loaded with a mag­a­zine con­tain­ing 13 rounds of am­mu­ni­tion.

Three sus­pects, who were on the premis­es at the time of the ex­er­cise, were ar­rest­ed in con­nec­tion with the finds.

In an­oth­er ex­er­cise, this time in the North­ern Di­vi­sion (ND), of­fi­cers of the NDTF and Ari­ma Po­lice Sta­tion, con­duct­ed an ex­er­cise co­or­di­nat­ed by ACP Rishi Singh, W/Snr. Supt. May­nard-Wil­son and Supt. Guel­mo, be­tween 10:30 pm, on Thurs­day 7th No­vem­ber, 2024 and 2 am, on Fri­day 8th No­vem­ber, 2024.

Dur­ing the ex­er­cise, of­fi­cers re­spond­ed to sep­a­rate re­ports of com­mon as­sault and rob­bery in the D’Abadie dis­trict.

Act­ing on in­for­ma­tion re­ceived, the of­fi­cers in­ter­cept­ed a Nis­san Almera mo­tor ve­hi­cle with four male oc­cu­pants short­ly af­ter.

A search of the ve­hi­cle al­leged­ly re­sult­ed in the seizure of an im­i­ta­tion firearm and the re­cov­ery of the items stolen from the vic­tims in the rob­bery in­ci­dent. The four sus­pects, ages 18 to 25, all of D’Abadie, were ar­rest­ed in con­nec­tion with the mat­ter. Mean­while, the TTPS said in Area South of the ND, of­fi­cers in­ter­cept­ed two ve­hi­cles along the Sir Solomon Ho­choy High­way, in the vicin­i­ty of Grand Bazaar, yes­ter­day evening.

A search of the ve­hi­cles re­port­ed­ly re­sult­ed in the dis­cov­ery of a to­tal of 12 pack­ets of co­caine weigh­ing 13.8 kilo­grammes.

The drug has an es­ti­mat­ed street val­ue of TT$19,236,096.

Three male sus­pects, ages 19 to 36, all of Fyz­abad, were ar­rest­ed in con­nec­tion with the find.

Mean­while, in the Cen­tral Di­vi­sion, of­fi­cers of the Gang Unit con­duct­ed an ex­er­cise be­tween 1 pm and 6 pm, yes­ter­day, dur­ing which they re­spond­ed to a re­port of men bran­dish­ing firearms in Flana­gin Town.

Act­ing on this in­for­ma­tion, one 20-year-old sus­pect was ar­rest­ed and one Smith and Wes­son pis­tol loaded with a mag­a­zine con­tain­ing four rounds of am­mu­ni­tion was re­port­ed­ly seized from his pos­ses­sion.

And, in the To­ba­go Di­vi­sion, an op­er­a­tion con­duct­ed at the Scar­bor­ough Port be­tween 8 pm and 10 pm, yes­ter­day, re­sult­ed in the search of a Mit­subishi flatbed truck, which was dis­em­bark­ing the Cabo Star Fer­ry. The search led to the al­leged dis­cov­ery of 2.8 kilo­grammes of com­pressed cannabis in the ve­hi­cle. A 24-year-old man was ar­rest­ed in con­nec­tion with the find.