Cannabis, ammunition seized in Port-of-Spain police exercise

A quan­ti­ty of cannabis and am­mu­ni­tion was seized and one man was ar­rest­ed dur­ing an in­tel­li­gence-led an­ti-crime ex­er­cise con­duct­ed by of­fi­cers of the Port-of-Spain Di­vi­sion overnight.

The Op­er­a­tion R.E.S.O.L.U.T.E. Shield ex­er­cise took place be­tween 10 p.m. on Wednes­day and 2 a.m. on Thurs­day in Gon­za­les, Bel­mont Val­ley Road, Snake Val­ley, Laven­tille Road and Per­se­ver­ance Lane, Plover Street.

Po­lice said of­fi­cers act­ed on in­tel­li­gence and car­ried out search­es at four hous­es and one aban­doned struc­ture dur­ing the op­er­a­tion.

A search of the aban­doned struc­ture at Snake Val­ley, Laven­tille, led to the dis­cov­ery of 16 rounds of ap­par­ent 9mm am­mu­ni­tion and 40 grammes of cannabis. The items were seized as in­ves­ti­ga­tions con­tin­ue.

Dur­ing the ex­er­cise, of­fi­cers al­so ar­rest­ed a man of Rudolph Charles Link Road, Gon­za­les, in con­nec­tion with lar­ce­ny en­quiries be­ing con­duct­ed by the Cen­tral Di­vi­sion.

The op­er­a­tion was spear­head­ed by Se­nior Su­per­in­ten­dent Thom, Su­per­in­ten­dent Baird, Su­per­in­ten­dent Ramdeen, As­sis­tant Su­per­in­ten­dent Cadette and In­spec­tor Dur­ga. Thom and the se­nior of­fi­cers co­or­di­nat­ed the ex­er­cise, which was su­per­vised by Sergeant Guer­ra.

Of­fi­cers at­tached to the Bel­mont and Besson Street po­lice sta­tions, sup­port­ed by mem­bers of the Ca­nine Unit, par­tic­i­pat­ed in the op­er­a­tion.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice said the ex­er­cise formed part of its on­go­ing in­tel­li­gence-led Op­er­a­tion R.E.S.O.L.U.T.E. Shield ini­tia­tive, aimed at dis­rupt­ing crim­i­nal ac­tiv­i­ty, re­cov­er­ing il­le­gal firearms, am­mu­ni­tion and drugs, and tar­get­ing per­sons want­ed for crim­i­nal of­fences.

In­ves­ti­ga­tions in­to the seizure of the am­mu­ni­tion and cannabis are con­tin­u­ing. Po­lice have not in­di­cat­ed whether ad­di­tion­al ar­rests are ex­pect­ed.