Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice, Al­lis­ter Gue­var­ro is as­sur­ing the pub­lic that the crime syn­di­cate whose ac­tiv­i­ties prompt­ed the de­c­la­ra­tion of the cur­rent State of Emer­gency, is be­ing dis­man­tled, piece-by-piece.

“When I called for the State of Emer­gency, I warned that these crim­i­nal syn­di­cates were us­ing kid­nap­pings and oth­er crimes to fu­el ter­ror,” the top cop said in a me­dia state­ment.

“With their lead­er­ship re­moved from their com­fort zone and ef­fec­tive­ly cut off from di­rect­ing their mem­bers, our op­er­a­tions con­tin­ue with pre­ci­sion and re­solve. We are not on­ly dis­man­tling their net­work,” he said, “but we are al­so dis­rupt­ing their en­tire busi­ness mod­el.”

He added: “Jail is jail, and while we de­fend cit­i­zens, we will not en­ter­tain at­tempts to re­turn those per­sons re­moved from the MSP to a place where they were able to or­der as­sas­si­na­tions, rob­beries, kid­nap­pings, ex­tor­tion and home in­va­sions.”

The Com­mis­sion­er’s com­ments come fol­low­ing the suc­cess­ful res­cue of kid­nap vic­tim, Jankie Satie Karim, from a house at To­co Main Road in Ram­panal­gas, around 6:30 pm yes­ter­day (Ju­ly 21, 2025), in an op­er­a­tion led by the Mul­ti-Op­tion Po­lice Sec­tion (MOPS), An­ti-Kid­nap­ping Unit (AKU), and Spe­cial In­ves­ti­ga­tions Unit (SIU).

Jankie Satie Karim was ab­duct­ed on Ju­ly 13.

“The vic­tim was safe­ly res­cued with­out in­jury, im­me­di­ate­ly at­tend­ed to for med­ical eval­u­a­tion, and is now re­unit­ed with her fam­i­ly,” an of­fi­cial TTPS state­ment re­ports.

Ac­cord­ing to the TTPS, dur­ing the con­fronta­tion: one male sus­pect, a hostage tak­er, was fa­tal­ly wound­ed; and a fe­male sus­pect, iden­ti­fied as se­cur­ing the hostage, was de­tained and is now in po­lice cus­tody.

The Po­lice Ser­vice al­so has con­firmed that no in­juries were sus­tained by po­lice of­fi­cers or mem­bers of the pub­lic dur­ing the res­cue op­er­a­tion for Jankie Satie Karim.

Even as he urged crim­i­nals to put down their weapons, the top cop is­sued a warn­ing:

“Let this be clear, hos­tile ac­tion against my of­fi­cers will be met with law­ful force.”

CoP Gue­var­ro said the TTPS will con­tin­ue its ef­forts to dis­man­tle “or­gan­ised crim­i­nal net­works that have re­sort­ed to kid­nap­pings as a rev­enue stream for ac­quir­ing weapons and threat­en­ing na­tion­al se­cu­ri­ty.”