Of­fi­cers from the South West­ern Di­vi­sion in­ter­cept­ed four il­le­gal im­mi­grants and seized a quan­ti­ty of il­le­gal items dur­ing an an­ti-crime ex­er­cise con­duct­ed in the di­vi­sion on Wednes­day.

A re­lease from the TTPS said based on in­for­ma­tion re­ceived, the of­fi­cers went to School Road, San­ta Flo­ra, near Ma­haw­al Beach, where four Venezue­lan im­mi­grants were held.

When the of­fi­cers searched the sus­pects, they found one Beretta pis­tol, two rounds of nine-mil­lime­tre am­mu­ni­tion and 20 cas­es of al­co­hol.

The sus­pects were de­tained and the il­le­gal firearm, am­mu­ni­tion and al­co­hol were seized.

The ex­er­cise was co­or­di­nat­ed by Se­nior Su­per­in­ten­dent Tee­warie, ASP Mathu­ra, In­spec­tor Mar­celle, Sergeants Khan and So­bie and PC Seecha­ran.

The ex­er­cise al­so in­clud­ed of­fi­cers from the South West­ern Di­vi­sion Task Force, the Crim­i­nal In­ves­ti­ga­tion De­part­ment and the Ca­nine Unit.

Mean­while, in the Cen­tral Di­vi­sion, of­fi­cers re­ceived in­for­ma­tion and went to a bushy un­oc­cu­pied lot in the Ex­change Hous­ing De­vel­op­ment.

When the of­fi­cers searched the area, they found one Glock 19 pis­tol fit­ted with a mag­a­zine con­tain­ing four rounds of nine-mil­lime­tre am­mu­ni­tion hid­den in a rust­ed bar­rel.