An­na-Lisa Paul

Mem­bers of the T&T Po­lice Ser­vice yes­ter­day seized sev­er­al items owned by the ser­vice, an il­le­gal firearm and am­mu­ni­tion dur­ing a raid on a prop­er­ty in Mor­vant.

In­for­ma­tion re­layed to the TTPS by mem­bers of the pub­lic led of­fi­cers to launch an an­ti-crime op­er­a­tion be­tween 8 and 10 am at Val­ley Dri­ve, Sixth Av­enue, Mor­vant.

The ex­er­cise was spear­head­ed by Snr Supt Ed­wards, Supt Birch and ASP Cal­len­der, was co­or­di­nat­ed by In­sp Ram­s­ingh and Sgt May­nard and su­per­vised by Cpl Fri­day and oth­ers from the Mor­vant CID.

Up­on ar­rival in the area, of­fi­cers found a gold Hon­da Ac­cord parked in the yard of an un­oc­cu­pied house.

Up­on search­ing the trunk, of­fi­cers found two po­lice op­er­a­tional jack­ets; one pair of op­er­a­tional pants; one pair of black boots; three black hats; one po­lice-is­sued bul­let proof vest; strobe lights; a pair of reg­is­tra­tion plates; one ri­fle; and three mag­a­zines con­tain­ing 90 rounds of 7.62 am­mu­ni­tion. The items were seized and tak­en to the Mor­vant sta­tion.

No one has been ar­rest­ed in re­la­tion to the find thus far.

Prais­ing the on­go­ing ef­forts by of­fi­cers to re­duce crime gen­er­al­ly, Deputy Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice (DCP), Op­er­a­tions, Ju­nior Ben­jamin, com­mend­ed North East­ern Di­vi­sion (NED) of­fi­cers in­volved in the ex­er­cise.

He said, “I am re­al­ly proud of the work done by the of­fi­cers here from the NED. It was tremen­dous work done in terms of the co­or­di­na­tion and ex­e­cu­tion of the mis­sion, so that they were able to get these re­sults.”

Ben­jamin said the suc­cess was re­flec­tive of the goals of the TTPS to get crime un­der con­trol, and that the metic­u­lous plan­ning by Snr Supt Mervyn Ed­wards and his team was tes­ti­mo­ny that of­fi­cers were com­mit­ted to the task at hand.

He added, “As we con­tin­ue to have that ze­ro tol­er­ance in terms of a crime fight, this is on­ly the be­gin­ning of what can be ac­com­plished as we re­lent­less­ly pur­sue all those who seek to per­pe­trate crimes against per­sons in T&T.”

Ben­jamin re­it­er­at­ed, “We are com­ing and we will be on the look­out as we ag­gres­sive­ly deal with the sit­u­a­tion, as our aim is to en­sure law and or­der, as well as the safe­ty and se­cu­ri­ty of all cit­i­zens in T&T.”