One man was ar­rest­ed for traf­fick­ing cannabis dur­ing a po­lice op­er­a­tion in the North-Cen­tral Di­vi­sion on Fri­day.

Ac­cord­ing to po­lice re­ports, the ex­er­cise was car­ried out by of­fi­cers of the North-Cen­tral Di­vi­sion Task Force (East) in col­lab­o­ra­tion with the Arou­ca CID. The rov­ing op­er­a­tion, con­duct­ed be­tween 5 pm and 8 pm, tar­get­ed sev­er­al ar­eas in­clud­ing Dick­son Street, St Michael Road, Mar­ket Street, Thomas Trace, and the cor­ner of Lopinot Road and Man­an Street in Arou­ca.

Around 6:30 pm, of­fi­cers ob­served a group of men gath­ered along Dick­son Street near a lo­ca­tion iden­ti­fied for drug-re­lat­ed ac­tiv­i­ty. On ap­proach­ing, the of­fi­cers iden­ti­fied them­selves as po­lice. At that mo­ment, one man was seen plac­ing two foil pack­ets through a gate while re­port­ed­ly say­ing, “look the 100 and 20 piece.”

The sus­pect, a res­i­dent of St Clair Ex­ten­sion, Trinci­ty, was de­tained by PC Lals­ingh. A search of his per­son un­cov­ered two foil pack­ets con­tain­ing cannabis along with a quan­ti­ty of cash. He was in­formed of the of­fence of traf­fick­ing in cannabis, ar­rest­ed, and cau­tioned un­der the Judges’ Rules.

He was lat­er tak­en to the Arou­ca Po­lice Sta­tion, where in­ves­ti­ga­tions are con­tin­u­ing un­der PC Mo­hammed.

The ex­er­cise was con­duct­ed un­der the di­rec­tive of ACP Si­mon and Snr Supt Gift, co­or­di­nat­ed by ASP Bharath and In­sp Pierre, and di­rect­ly su­per­vised by PC Rochford.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) said it re­mains com­mit­ted to proac­tive polic­ing and com­mu­ni­ty safe­ty.