Four peo­ple were ar­rest­ed and one firearm and quan­ti­ties of am­mu­ni­tion were seized dur­ing an­ti-crime ex­er­cis­es con­duct­ed across sev­er­al di­vi­sions yes­ter­day.

The TTPS said in the North East­ern Di­vi­sion, Task Force of­fi­cers, ac­com­pa­nied by per­son­nel of the Mor­vant, San Juan and San­ta Cruz Po­lice Sta­tions, con­duct­ed an ex­er­cise be­tween 10 am and 2 pm, yes­ter­day, Mon­day 31st, March, 2025.

Dur­ing the ex­er­cise, they stopped one black-coloured Toy­ota Yaris mo­tor ve­hi­cle, with a male dri­ver and one male mi­nor in the back­seat.

The dri­ver was held for pro­duc­ing an in­valid dri­ver’s per­mit and Cer­tifi­cate of In­sur­ance. A search of the ve­hi­cle re­port­ed­ly re­sult­ed in one pis­tol loaded with a mag­a­zine con­tain­ing 10 rounds of am­mu­ni­tion, be­ing dis­cov­ered in­side a bag.

The sus­pect, a 35-year-old of Laven­tille, was ar­rest­ed in con­nec­tion with the find.

Mean­while, an an­ti-crime ex­er­cise con­duct­ed in the La Ro­maine dis­trict last night, re­sult­ed in the ar­rest of a 40-year-old man for pos­ses­sion of cannabis and pos­ses­sion of a weapon.

Two oth­er sus­pects, ages 53 and 29, both of San Fer­nan­do, were ar­rest­ed for pos­ses­sion of cannabis and pos­ses­sion of an of­fen­sive weapon.

And, on­go­ing op­er­a­tions in the Port of Spain Di­vi­sion, con­duct­ed by the In­ter-Agency Task Force, di­rect­ed by ACP Col­lis Hazel and co­or­di­nat­ed by Snr  Supt Spence, Supt Ram­sook and ASP Singh, re­sult­ed in the re­cov­ery of four lap­tops and two Trinidad and To­ba­go pass­ports, af­ter they were re­port­ed stolen from the Cen­tral Di­vi­sion.

With the as­sis­tance of of­fi­cers of the Cen­tral Di­vi­sion Crim­i­nal In­ves­ti­ga­tions De­part­ment, of­fi­cers pro­ceed­ed to an in­com­plete con­crete struc­ture at Beetham Gar­dens around 2:45 pm, on Sun­day 30th March 2025.

There, they found two com­put­er bags con­tain­ing the stolen lap­tops and pass­ports.

The IATF of­fi­cers then pro­ceed­ed to con­duct search­es in the Port of Spain Di­vi­sion, which re­sult­ed in the dis­cov­ery of five rounds of 5.56 am­mu­ni­tion on the top floor of a build­ing.

In­ves­ti­ga­tions are on­go­ing in­to all of the mat­ters.