The Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) ex­e­cut­ed tar­get­ed op­er­a­tions across var­i­ous polic­ing di­vi­sion over the past 24 hours, lead­ing to the seizure of three firearms, a quan­ti­ty of am­mu­ni­tion, along with oth­er con­tra­band ma­te­r­i­al sus­pect­ed to be used to per­form rob­beries.

Be­tween 10 pm on Fri­day 22nd March 2024 and 5 am on Sat­ur­day, the West­ern Di­vi­sion Gang and In­tel­li­gence Unit con­duct­ed an ex­er­cise in the West End Po­lice Dis­trict. Around 1:30 am the of­fi­cers pro­ceed­ed to a bas­ket­ball court in the Covi­gne Road, Diego Mar­tin area. Dur­ing a search of the area, they found one black coloured Glock mag­a­zine con­tain­ing sev­en­teen 17 rounds of .9 mm am­mu­ni­tion, one rusty sil­ver and grey emp­ty mag­a­zine, one black tac­ti­cal jack­et, one blue tac­ti­cal jack­et with ‘PO­LICE’ vel­cro patch­es, one back firearm hol­ster, one pair of black coloured gloves, one black and white hat with the word ‘PO­LICE’ em­broi­dered to the front along with the TTPS em­blem and one green cam­ou­flage ski mask in the storm drain. PC Ramkri­paul is con­tin­u­ing en­quiries.

Mean­while, dur­ing a stop and search ex­er­cise in the North East­ern Di­vi­sion yes­ter­day, while in the vicin­i­ty of a bar lo­cat­ed at Mt. Lam­bert Road, of­fi­cers ob­served a man who was lim­ing at the said bar, throw­ing an ob­ject in a plas­tic bag over a gal­va­nize fence on the east­ern side of the road­way. The of­fi­cers re­trieved the bag which con­tained one Beretta pis­tol, out­fit­ted with one mag­a­zine con­tain­ing sev­en rounds of 9-mm am­mu­ni­tion. A 24-year-old man from St. Au­gus­tine was sub­se­quent­ly ar­rest­ed and con­veyed to the Barataria Po­lice Sta­tion to be charged.

Al­so, around 6:30 am yes­ter­day in the South West­ern Di­vi­sion, WPC Vesprey in com­pa­ny with oth­er mem­bers of the South West­ern Di­vi­sion Task Force (SWDTF) con­duct­ed an in­tel­li­gence-led an­ti-crime ex­er­cise du­ty. The of­fi­cers pro­ceed­ed to an un­fenced scrap yard in the vicin­i­ty of Los Iros Junc­tion, Los Iros, where they searched the area and found a Glock 19 pis­tol on top of some steel pipes. WPC Vesprey took pos­ses­sion of the firearm and found a mag­a­zine con­tain­ing 17 rounds of 9-mm am­mu­ni­tion.