A home­made shot­gun was seized dur­ing an an­ti-crime op­er­a­tion in the Point Fortin dis­trict as part of na­tion­wide ex­er­cis­es fol­low­ing the de­c­la­ra­tion of a State of Emer­gency (SoE).

In­ves­ti­ga­tors said around 10.30 pm on Jan­u­ary 2, Snr Supt Thomp­son, Supt Cum­ber­batch, Asp Cor­rie, and In­sp Prescott, as well as mem­bers of the Point Fortin Po­lice Sta­tion, Crim­i­nal In­ves­ti­ga­tions De­part­ment (CID), Di­vi­sion­al Task Force, Ce­dros Po­lice, and the Ca­nine Unit, con­duct­ed search­es un­der Sec­tions 8 and 13 of Le­gal No­tice 240 of the Emer­gency Pow­ers Reg­u­la­tion 2024.

Act­ing on a tip-off, of­fi­cers searched an over­grown area off Beach Road in Chatham. Ap­prox­i­mate­ly 50 feet from the road, they dis­cov­ered the shot­gun hid­den un­der a sheet of gal­vanised met­al. The weapon was seized, but no ar­rests were made.

The op­er­a­tion ran from 7 pm to 11 pm. Po­lice said sev­er­al “pri­or­i­ty of­fend­ers” were tar­get­ed, in­clud­ing a 55-year-old un­em­ployed woman, a 48-year-old de­por­tee, and a 24-year-old man. How­ev­er, no il­le­gal items were found, and no ar­rests were made. —RAD­HI­CA DE SIL­VA