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32 arrested as police execute 52 warrants in Southern Division

05 June 2026
This content originally appeared on Trinidad Guardian.
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Po­lice ar­rest­ed 32 peo­ple and ex­e­cut­ed 52 war­rants dur­ing a co­or­di­nat­ed ex­er­cise con­duct­ed by of­fi­cers of the South­ern Di­vi­sion ear­li­er this week.

The op­er­a­tion took place be­tween 9 a.m. on Tues­day 2 June, 2026, and 5 a.m. on Thurs­day 4 June, 2026, tar­get­ing in­di­vid­u­als want­ed in con­nec­tion with a range of of­fences.

Ac­cord­ing to the Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice, those ar­rest­ed in­clud­ed three peo­ple want­ed for wound­ing, one per­son want­ed for shop break­ing and lar­ce­ny, one per­son want­ed for pos­ses­sion of co­caine, one per­son want­ed for dri­ving with­out a valid Cer­tifi­cate of In­sur­ance and with­out a valid Dri­ver’s Per­mit, one per­son want­ed for dri­ving un­der the in­flu­ence of al­co­hol, one ad­di­tion­al per­son want­ed for dri­ving with­out a valid Cer­tifi­cate of In­sur­ance, and one per­son want­ed for lar­ce­ny.

Po­lice al­so held two peo­ple for en­quiries and ar­rest­ed 25 peo­ple in con­nec­tion with af­fil­i­a­tion war­rants.

Se­nior Su­per­in­ten­dent Si­mon, Su­per­in­ten­dent Bertie, Su­per­in­ten­dent Bridge­lal, ASP Ram­saran, ASP Pacheco, ASP Rag­bir, ASP Chul­han, In­spec­tor Ram­saran and Sergeant Nar­ine led the ex­er­cise.

The TTPS said it re­mains com­mit­ted to ex­e­cut­ing out­stand­ing war­rants and ap­pre­hend­ing peo­ple want­ed for crim­i­nal of­fences as part of its on­go­ing crime re­duc­tion and pub­lic safe­ty ini­tia­tives.