Po­lice have seized and up­root­ed eight ful­ly-grown cannabis trees dur­ing a four-hour op­er­a­tion at the Mal­oney Hous­ing De­vel­op­ment.

The op­er­a­tion was con­duct­ed on Fri­day be­tween 9 am and 1 pm by of­fi­cers at­tached to sev­er­al units with­in the North­ern North Di­vi­sion, in­clud­ing the Gang Unit, CID, Spe­cial In­ves­ti­ga­tion Unit and K-9 Unit.

Of­fi­cers searched com­mon ar­eas and over­grown bushy sec­tions sur­round­ing Build­ings 13 to 21.

Dur­ing the ex­er­cise, eight cannabis trees, mea­sur­ing be­tween four and six feet tall, were dis­cov­ered grow­ing in a bushy area near Build­ing 19.

The trees were up­root­ed and seized.

The op­er­a­tion was co­or­di­nat­ed by Se­nior Su­per­in­ten­dent Frank McKen­zie and ASP Bele­wa, and su­per­vised by Act­ing In­spec­tor Cae­sar and Woman Sergeant Joseph, the Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice said.