Mem­bers of the Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) moved swift­ly to res­cue a four-year-old boy af­ter a ve­hi­cle theft es­ca­lat­ed in­to an ab­duc­tion on Sat­ur­day af­ter­noon.

Ac­cord­ing to po­lice re­ports, around 3 pm a 51-year-old man re­port­ed that his white Nis­san Navara had been stolen along Guaico Tamana Road in San­gre Grande with his son in­side.

Po­lice said the sus­pect, known to the vic­tim, drove off with the child, prompt­ing an im­me­di­ate re­sponse. The ve­hi­cle was lo­cat­ed short­ly af­ter at a near­by lo­ca­tion, with the child found un­harmed in­side. A 40-year-old sus­pect was ar­rest­ed by of­fi­cers of the San­gre Grande Po­lice Sta­tion, while the child was med­ical­ly ex­am­ined and found to be in good health.

The ex­er­cise was one of sev­er­al TTPS ex­er­cis­es across the coun­try dur­ing con­tin­u­ing ac­tiv­i­ty un­der the on­go­ing State of Emer­gency.

In Cen­tral Trinidad, of­fi­cers con­duct­ed a road traf­fic ex­er­cise be­tween 9 am and 1 pm in Ch­agua­nas, tar­get­ing Mon­trose Junc­tion, Busy Cor­ner and the South­ern Main Road.

Sev­en­teen fixed penal­ty no­tices were is­sued for var­i­ous of­fences, in­clud­ing breach­es of traf­fic signs, us­ing ve­hi­cles con­trary to reg­is­tra­tion, il­le­gal park­ing with­in nine me­tres of a cor­ner, use of mo­bile phones while dri­ving and fail­ure to wear seat­belts.

The op­er­a­tion was led by Se­nior Su­per­in­ten­dent Bhag­wan­deen, ASP Ho­sein and In­spec­tor Ba­goo and co­or­di­nat­ed by Sergeant Small.

In a sep­a­rate ear­ly morn­ing ex­er­cise, of­fi­cers car­ried out a co­or­di­nat­ed SoE op­er­a­tion in Man­zanil­la be­tween 4 am and 8 am. Three peo­ple were ar­rest­ed for pos­ses­sion of am­mu­ni­tion, with one round of 5.56 am­mu­ni­tion and four 12-gauge car­tridges seized. Ad­di­tion­al ar­rests were made pend­ing fur­ther en­quiries.

That op­er­a­tion was led by Se­nior Supt Pa­ponette and Supt Be­har­ry, with sup­port from the East­ern Di­vi­sion Task Force, East­ern Di­vi­sion Gang In­tel­li­gence Unit and the K9 Unit.