One man was ar­rest­ed and two firearms, sev­er­al rounds of am­mu­ni­tion, and quan­ti­ties of nar­cotics were seized dur­ing an­ti-crime ex­er­cis­es con­duct­ed by of­fi­cers of the In­ter-Agency Task Force (IATF) and the Guard and Emer­gency Branch (GEB) on Sat­ur­day.

The ex­er­cis­es, which ran be­tween 3 p.m. and 9 p.m. on April 26, fo­cused on high-crime ar­eas across the North East­ern and Port of Spain Di­vi­sions.

Ac­cord­ing to the TTPS, around 4:30 p.m., of­fi­cers re­spond­ed to a play­ground on Up­per Er­i­ca Street, Rock City, Laven­tille, where they ap­proached the area tac­ti­cal­ly. Po­lice Con­sta­ble Say­ers re­port­ed see­ing a man in di­sheveled cloth­ing who, up­on spot­ting the of­fi­cers, fled north. Al­though the sus­pect es­caped cap­ture, PC Say­ers lat­er con­duct­ed a search of the area and dis­cov­ered a CPX-1 firearm with a mag­a­zine con­tain­ing four rounds of 9mm am­mu­ni­tion. The weapon and am­mu­ni­tion were seized and tak­en to the Besson Street Po­lice Sta­tion.

Lat­er dur­ing the ex­er­cise, of­fi­cers pa­trolling Chanka Trace, El So­cor­ro, stopped and searched a man, find­ing 178 grammes of cannabis in his pos­ses­sion.

The 39-year-old sus­pect, a res­i­dent of Chanka Trace, was ar­rest­ed and tak­en to the Barataria Po­lice Sta­tion.

In a sep­a­rate op­er­a­tion, of­fi­cers dis­cov­ered three pack­ets of cannabis weigh­ing ap­prox­i­mate­ly 330 grammes dur­ing a search of an aban­doned lot along Troumacaque Road.

The op­er­a­tions in Trinidad were spear­head­ed by As­sis­tant Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice (ACP) Hazel, Se­nior Su­per­in­ten­dent Spence, Su­per­in­ten­dent Ram­sook, and As­sis­tant Su­per­in­ten­dent (ASP) Singh, and co­or­di­nat­ed by Act­ing In­spec­tor Khan.

Mean­while, in To­ba­go, at ap­prox­i­mate­ly 10:30 a.m., of­fi­cers on pa­trol along Bev­er­ly Hills, Bethel, spot­ted three men stand­ing by the road­side. Up­on see­ing the po­lice ve­hi­cle, the men fled in­to a near­by forest­ed area. De­spite giv­ing chase, of­fi­cers were un­able to ap­pre­hend the sus­pects. How­ev­er, PC Sealey con­duct­ed a search of the area and found a met­al and wood firearm loaded with five rounds of .38mm am­mu­ni­tion. The firearm and am­mu­ni­tion were tak­en to the Shir­van Road Po­lice Sta­tion.

The To­ba­go op­er­a­tion was led by ACP Hazel, ACP Subero, Se­nior Su­per­in­ten­dents Mon­trichard, Elie, and Spece, and su­per­vised by Sergeant Ram­samooj.

Po­lice in­ves­ti­ga­tions in­to these dis­cov­er­ies are on­go­ing.