Two wire­less ra­dios and two po­lice uni­forms were among items seized at the Ari­ma home of pas­tor and pur­port­ed in­tel­li­gence of­fi­cer for the Strate­gic Ser­vices Agency (SSA) Ian Ezekiel Brown dur­ing a search on Sat­ur­day morn­ing.

Of­fi­cers from the In­ter Agency Task Force (IATF), Spe­cial Branch and Spe­cial In­ves­ti­ga­tions Unit (SIU), vis­it­ed Brown’s Chin Ale­ong Street, Ari­ma, home where they made the dis­cov­ery.

Dur­ing the raid, dubbed Op­er­a­tion Creed, which was led by ACP Tac­ti­cal Sup­port Kelvern Thomp­son, a search war­rant for arms and am­mu­ni­tion was ex­e­cut­ed at the home.

In a re­port from an­oth­er dai­ly news­pa­per (not Guardian), Brown, who is a Spe­cial Re­serve Po­lice (SRP) of­fi­cer ad­mit­ted to be­ing a spy.

Sources said one of the uni­forms was blue and grey while the oth­er was the blue op­er­a­tional kit.

Guardian Me­dia sent ques­tions to the TTPS Cor­po­rate Com­mu­ni­ca­tions Unit via email and What­sApp yes­ter­day seek­ing clar­i­ty on whether Brown was au­tho­rised to have uni­forms and wire­less ra­dios in his pos­ses­sion but did not re­ceive a re­sponse up to press time. Ef­forts to con­tact Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Fitzger­ald Hinds for com­ment were al­so un­suc­cess­ful.

Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley was ap­proached af­ter a sod-turn­ing cer­e­mo­ny for the Min­istry of So­cial De­vel­op­ment and Fam­i­ly Ser­vices’ head­quar­ters but he did not ac­cept ques­tions and left im­me­di­ate­ly af­ter the event.

A se­cu­ri­ty con­sul­tant and in­tel­li­gence of­fi­cer, who asked not to be named, did not want to com­ment on Brown’s claim of be­ing an SSA op­er­a­tive but point­ed out that spies do not ad­ver­tise their ac­tiv­i­ties to the pub­lic.

“Un­like con­fi­den­tial in­for­mants, spies main­tain their cov­er at all costs, of­ten op­er­at­ing un­der deep cov­er for ex­tend­ed pe­ri­ods. While the ti­tle of ‘spy’ may evoke in­trigue, it’s es­sen­tial to recog­nise the grav­i­ty of their role in safe­guard­ing na­tion­al se­cu­ri­ty and pro­tect­ing vi­tal in­ter­ests,” he said.

Of­fi­cers from the Spe­cial In­ves­ti­ga­tions Unit are con­tin­u­ing in­ves­ti­ga­tions.