The Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) ar­rest­ed four peo­ple for rob­bery and lar­ce­ny-re­lat­ed of­fences, de­tained four oth­ers in con­nec­tion with a firearms in­ves­ti­ga­tion, and re­cov­ered two stolen cel­lu­lar phones dur­ing a se­ries of in­tel­li­gence-led op­er­a­tions as part of Op­er­a­tion RES­OLUTE Shield in Ch­agua­nas, Port-of-Spain and To­ba­go.

In a state­ment is­sued yes­ter­day, the TTPS said that in Ch­agua­nas, of­fi­cers of the Crim­i­nal In­ves­ti­ga­tions De­part­ment (CID) con­duct­ed an in­tel­li­gence-led ex­er­cise be­tween 12 pm and 4.30 pm on Mon­day in re­sponse to re­cent rob­bery re­ports.

Po­lice said of­fi­cers went to a busi­ness es­tab­lish­ment along Main Road, Ch­agua­nas, where they ar­rest­ed a 31-year-old man in con­nec­tion with on­go­ing in­ves­ti­ga­tions. Of­fi­cers lat­er went to Soogrim Trace, Or­ange Val­ley, fol­low­ing a re­port of a stolen cel­lu­lar phone and ar­rest­ed a 25-year-old man.

Dur­ing the ex­er­cise, of­fi­cers al­so re­cov­ered two cel­lu­lar phones that had been re­port­ed stolen.

In a sep­a­rate op­er­a­tion be­tween 5 am and 11 am on Sun­day, of­fi­cers as­signed to the Port-of-Spain CID Area West tar­get­ed peo­ple sus­pect­ed of in­volve­ment in a se­ries of lar­ce­ny of­fences, in­clud­ing the theft of air con­di­tion­ing units and break-ins of mo­tor ve­hi­cles.

Po­lice said the ex­er­cise fol­lowed in­ves­ti­ga­tions in­to sev­er­al re­ports, in­clud­ing a re­cent in­ci­dent in­volv­ing a ve­hi­cle in St Clair. Two peo­ple were ar­rest­ed for lar­ce­ny-re­lat­ed of­fences.

Mean­while, around 12.35 am yes­ter­day, of­fi­cers of the To­ba­go Di­vi­sion, act­ing on in­tel­li­gence about armed in­di­vid­u­als in the Sig­nal Hill dis­trict, car­ried out a joint op­er­a­tion with mem­bers of the Trinidad and To­ba­go De­fence Force.

Ac­cord­ing to po­lice, De­fence Force per­son­nel in­ter­cept­ed a ve­hi­cle oc­cu­pied by four men who were re­port­ed­ly in pos­ses­sion of firearms. Po­lice of­fi­cers re­spond­ed to the scene, where the oc­cu­pants had al­ready been se­cured.

Crime Scene In­ves­ti­ga­tors processed the scene and of­fi­cers from the Crim­i­nal In­ves­ti­ga­tions De­part­ment as­sist­ed with the in­ves­ti­ga­tion.

Po­lice said two high-pow­ered ri­fles were found in the ve­hi­cle. The four oc­cu­pants were de­tained, and in­ves­ti­ga­tions in­to the firearms mat­ter are con­tin­u­ing.