A se­ries of an­ti-crime ex­er­cis­es con­duct­ed across the North East­ern, Cen­tral, and Port-of-Spain Di­vi­sions led to the ar­rest of six peo­ple and the seizure of three firearms, Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) con­firmed on Mon­day.

The op­er­a­tions, which were sup­port­ed by the T&T De­fence Force, tar­get­ed crim­i­nal ac­tiv­i­ties un­der the on­go­ing State of Emer­gency reg­u­la­tions.

In Mal­ick, of­fi­cers from the Mor­vant Crim­i­nal In­ves­ti­ga­tions De­part­ment (CID), North East­ern Di­vi­sion Task Force and NED Gang and In­tel­li­gence Unit re­spond­ed to a re­port of gun­fire on Sun­day be­tween 7.30 pm and 11.30 pm. At the scene, a black Suzu­ki Swift, aban­doned on the road­way, was searched. Of­fi­cers found a Glock pis­tol with a mag­a­zine con­tain­ing six rounds of am­mu­ni­tion and one spent shell. Fur­ther in­ves­ti­ga­tions re­vealed the ve­hi­cle bore false reg­is­tra­tion plates and had been re­port­ed stolen in the Cen­tral Di­vi­sion in De­cem­ber.

Mean­while, in the Cen­tral Di­vi­sion, Area South Task Force of­fi­cers con­duct­ed op­er­a­tions in the Cou­va and Freeport dis­tricts. Dur­ing an ex­er­cise at Siew­dass Road, a gold Nis­san Ti­i­da was stopped and searched. Of­fi­cers re­cov­ered an­oth­er pis­tol, loaded with six rounds of am­mu­ni­tion. The three oc­cu­pants of the ve­hi­cle—two men, aged 20 and 33, and a woman, aged 27—were tak­en in­to cus­tody.

In a sep­a­rate op­er­a­tion ear­ly Mon­day, TTPS per­son­nel con­duct­ed “Op­er­a­tion Blast” in Sea Lots, Port-of-Spain Di­vi­sion. This ex­er­cise saw the ar­rest of three in­di­vid­u­als and the re­cov­ery of a pis­tol loaded with 12 rounds of am­mu­ni­tion from a draw­er that al­so con­tained a copy of the Bible.

Com­ment­ing on the suc­cess­ful op­er­a­tions, As­sis­tant Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice (ACP) Col­lis Hazel, of Tac­ti­cal Sup­port, said, “The crim­i­nal el­e­ments may be pray­ing to avoid jus­tice, but our prayers are stronger. Backed by de­ter­mined po­lice work, we are res­olute in our mis­sion to en­sure safe­ty for the cit­i­zens of Trinidad and To­ba­go.”

The TTPS em­pha­sised its com­mit­ment to fight­ing crime and urged cit­i­zens to re­main vig­i­lant.

In­ves­ti­ga­tions in­to the in­ci­dents are on­go­ing.