Police recover stolen vehicles in Sangre Grande

Of­fi­cers of the Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) re­cov­ered two stolen ve­hi­cles dur­ing a co­or­di­nat­ed an­ti-crime ex­er­cise in the San­gre Grande Dis­trict last Fri­day.

The op­er­a­tion, dubbed Op­er­a­tion Steady Guard, was car­ried out be­tween 10:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m. and in­volved per­son­nel from the San­gre Grande Crim­i­nal In­ves­ti­ga­tions De­part­ment (CID) and the Emer­gency and Dis­as­ter Task Force (EDTF).

Act­ing on in­tel­li­gence, of­fi­cers pro­ceed­ed to Tu­rure Road in the Guaico area to in­ves­ti­gate a white Kia K2700 that had been re­port­ed stolen ear­li­er that day in Ari­ma. Dur­ing the ex­er­cise, of­fi­cers al­so dis­cov­ered a sil­ver-grey Hon­da City parked along a bushy track off Tu­rure Main Road. Checks con­firmed that the Hon­da had been re­port­ed stolen in the West­ern Di­vi­sion ear­li­er that morn­ing.

Fur­ther search­es led to the re­cov­ery of the Kia K2700 near an aban­doned quar­ry. In ad­di­tion, of­fi­cers found a red Hyundai Elantra hatch­back that had been stripped, with its chas­sis num­ber re­moved.

Crime Scene In­ves­ti­ga­tors processed the re­cov­ered ve­hi­cles, though no work­able fin­ger­prints were ob­tained. The ve­hi­cles were lat­er trans­port­ed to the San­gre Grande Po­lice Sta­tion for safe­keep­ing as in­ves­ti­ga­tions con­tin­ue.

The TTPS em­pha­sized its on­go­ing com­mit­ment to re­cov­er­ing stolen ve­hi­cles and dis­rupt­ing crim­i­nal ac­tiv­i­ty. In a state­ment, the ser­vice un­der­scored its ded­i­ca­tion to en­sur­ing the safe­ty and se­cu­ri­ty of com­mu­ni­ties across Trinidad and To­ba­go.

Op­er­a­tion Steady Guard re­flects the po­lice ser­vice’s strat­e­gy of com­bin­ing in­tel­li­gence-led polic­ing with co­or­di­nat­ed field ex­er­cis­es. By tar­get­ing ar­eas known for il­lic­it ac­tiv­i­ty, of­fi­cers aim to re­duce the preva­lence of ve­hi­cle theft and dis­man­tle net­works in­volved in strip­ping and re­selling stolen cars.

The re­cov­ery of mul­ti­ple ve­hi­cles in a sin­gle day high­lights the ef­fec­tive­ness of joint op­er­a­tions be­tween spe­cial­ized units. Au­thor­i­ties con­tin­ue to en­cour­age cit­i­zens to re­port sus­pi­cious ac­tiv­i­ty, stress­ing that com­mu­ni­ty co­op­er­a­tion re­mains vi­tal in the fight against crime.