Morvant police seize ammunition during anti-crime exercise

Of­fi­cers at­tached to the Mor­vant Po­lice Sta­tion and the North East­ern Di­vi­sion Task Force (NEDTF) seized 15 rounds of am­mu­ni­tion dur­ing an an­ti-crime op­er­a­tion in Mor­vant on Mon­day.

Ac­cord­ing to the Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS), the ex­er­cise took place in the Cipri­ani Av­enue and 2nd Cale­do­nia ar­eas and was aimed at tar­get­ing il­le­gal firearm ac­tiv­i­ty and im­prov­ing pub­lic safe­ty.

Po­lice said of­fi­cers con­duct­ed search­es in sev­er­al ar­eas dur­ing the ex­er­cise. Dur­ing a search near a bas­ket­ball court, of­fi­cers dis­cov­ered a black plas­tic bag con­tain­ing a trans­par­ent bag with am­mu­ni­tion.

The cache con­sist­ed of four rounds of .223mm am­mu­ni­tion and 11 rounds of .300mm am­mu­ni­tion.

In­ves­ti­ga­tors said the am­mu­ni­tion was seized and tak­en to the San Juan Po­lice Sub Sta­tion pend­ing fur­ther in­quiries.

No ar­rests were re­port­ed up to Mon­day af­ter­noon, and in­ves­ti­ga­tions are con­tin­u­ing.

The TTPS said the op­er­a­tion formed part of on­go­ing ef­forts to dis­rupt crim­i­nal ac­tiv­i­ty and re­move il­le­gal weapons and am­mu­ni­tion from com­mu­ni­ties.

In its state­ment, the po­lice ser­vice re­it­er­at­ed its com­mit­ment to pub­lic safe­ty and urged res­i­dents to con­tin­ue co­op­er­at­ing with law en­force­ment by shar­ing in­for­ma­tion on sus­pi­cious ac­tiv­i­ties.

The Mor­vant dis­trict has been the fo­cus of sev­er­al po­lice ex­er­cis­es in re­cent months as of­fi­cers in­ten­si­fy op­er­a­tions tar­get­ing gangs, il­le­gal firearms and vi­o­lent crime.

Po­lice have re­peat­ed­ly ap­pealed to mem­bers of the pub­lic to pro­vide in­for­ma­tion that can as­sist in­ves­ti­ga­tions, stress­ing that in­tel­li­gence from res­i­dents re­mains a key tool in crime-fight­ing ef­forts across the coun­try.