Cops seize police vests, multiple firearms in anti-crime operations

Mul­ti­ple firearms, am­mu­ni­tion, and po­lice is­sued equip­ment—in­clud­ing bul­let­proof vests—were re­cov­ered dur­ing sev­er­al an­ti-crime op­er­a­tions car­ried out on Tues­day 16 De­cem­ber 2025, the Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice has con­firmed.

And in an of­fi­cial state­ment on the mat­ter, the Po­lice Ser­vice is urg­ing mem­bers of the pub­lic to con­tin­ue part­ner­ing with law en­force­ment by pro­vid­ing in­for­ma­tion that can as­sist in the fight against crime.

Ac­cord­ing to the TTPS re­lease, po­lice of­fi­cers at­tached to the Cu­mu­to Po­lice Sta­tion and the North­ern Di­vi­sion North Task Force re­ceived in­tel­li­gence that led them to an aban­doned prop­er­ty along Cu­mu­to Main Road, Cu­mu­to, yes­ter­day. A search of the premis­es led to the dis­cov­ery of one pump-ac­tion shot­gun and two blue bul­let­proof vests marked “Po­lice”.

And in a sep­a­rate ex­er­cise con­duct­ed be­tween 1:30 and 4:30 pm on Tues­day, of­fi­cers from the San Raphael Po­lice Sta­tion car­ried out a search in a forest­ed area along Are­na Road, San Raphael, where they found a home­made 16-gauge shot­gun.

Mean­while, an in­tel­li­gence-dri­ven op­er­a­tion be­tween 5:00 pm and 8:30 pm with­in the Ch­agua­nas Polic­ing Dis­trict, re­sult­ed in the re­cov­ery of a firearm and am­mu­ni­tion.

The TTPS says of­fi­cers from the Ch­agua­nas Crim­i­nal In­ves­ti­ga­tions De­part­ment (CID), along with mem­bers of the Cen­tral Di­vi­sion Task Force (CDTF) Area North, ob­tained in­for­ma­tion that led them to Con­nec­tor Road, Char­lieville, where they con­duct­ed a thor­ough search of a dense­ly bushy area. The of­fi­cers dis­cov­ered a shot­gun along with sev­er­al shot­gun car­tridges. The cal­i­bre of the am­mu­ni­tion is yet to be de­ter­mined.

In­ves­ti­ga­tions are on­go­ing.