A Se­cret Sun­day pool par­ty in Port-of-Spain was bust­ed by of­fi­cers of the Spe­cial Op­er­a­tions Re­sponse Team (SORT) af­ter mid­night on Mon­day morn­ing where 22 women and 20 men were de­tained.

A 37-year-old woman from West­moor­ings, who is be­lieved to be the main sus­pect who arranged the event, has al­so been ar­rest­ed and is cur­rent­ly as­sist­ing po­lice in their in­ves­ti­ga­tions.

Po­lice said most of the women are non-na­tion­als with no iden­ti­fi­ca­tion in their pos­ses­sion. They were al­leged­ly en­gaged in lewd danc­ing, pos­si­ble pros­ti­tu­tion and child en­dan­ger­ment as sev­er­al of them are be­lieved to be mi­nors. They were found in a house at La­dy Chan­cel­lor Heights.

Just af­ter mid­night on Mon­day, act­ing on in­tel­li­gence, SORT of­fi­cers con­duct­ed a sting op­er­a­tion at the house where the women, along with 20 men, were ar­rest­ed. They have all been moved to the St James Bar­racks where they are cur­rent­ly be­ing in­ter­viewed by in­ves­ti­ga­tors.

Po­lice al­so found and seized a firearm and am­mu­ni­tion, nar­cotics and a large amount of cash.

Guardian Me­dia un­der­stands that an ad­ver­tise­ment was is­sued to high­light the event. It was ti­tled "Can you keep a se­cret?" and gave de­tails for a "Se­cret Sun­days Latin EDM Pri­vate Pool Par­ty." It al­so ad­ver­tised that the event would be at a se­cret lo­ca­tion where "Se­cret Plea­sures Await" along with a What­sApp num­ber for in­ter­est­ed per­sons to mes­sage for fur­ther in­for­ma­tion and the lo­ca­tion. It end­ed by stat­ing: "Make Sun­days your Se­cret."

Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice Gary Grif­fith led the op­er­a­tions with of­fi­cers of SORT, the Port-of-Spain Task Force, Ca­nine and Mu­nic­i­pal Po­lice.

Up un­til the time of a re­lease is­sued by the TTPS, Grif­fith was still on the scene along­side the Counter-Traf­fick­ing, Child Pro­tec­tion and Vic­tim and Wit­ness Sup­port Units of the TTPS con­duct­ing en­quiries to ver­i­fy the ages of the young women found.