The North Cen­tral Di­vi­sion along with sev­er­al of its part­ner law en­force­ment agen­cies, un­der­took a mas­sive joint an­ti-crime ex­er­cise yes­ter­day, aimed at re­mov­ing il­le­gal firearms and nar­cotics from its com­mu­ni­ties and restor­ing a sense of safe­ty and se­cu­ri­ty.

Dur­ing the ex­er­cise, which took place be­tween 1 pm and 5 pm, on Thurs­day 4th Au­gust, 2022, si­mul­ta­ne­ous road­blocks were con­duct­ed along the East­ern Main Road, the Churchill Roo­sevelt High­way and the Pri­or­i­ty Bus Route.

As a re­sult, four sus­pects, ages 18 to 45, all of St. James, were ar­rest­ed for pos­ses­sion of a quan­ti­ty of am­mu­ni­tion. In­ves­ti­ga­tions are on­go­ing in­to this mat­ter.

Of­fi­cers al­so is­sued 55 tick­ets to er­rant dri­vers for var­i­ous traf­fic of­fences.

The ex­er­cise was ini­ti­at­ed by ACP Sama­roo and Snr. Supt. Ram­phall, co­or­di­nat­ed by Supt. Pow­der, W/ASP (Ag.) Pow­der, ASP Ramhar­rack and In­sp. High­ly and in­clud­ed of­fi­cers of all sta­tions, Crim­i­nal In­ves­ti­ga­tions De­part­ments and Task Forces with­in the Di­vi­sion.

The ef­fort was sup­port­ed by per­son­nel from the Guard and Emer­gency Branch, the In­ter-Agency Task Force, the Traf­fic and High­way Pa­trol Branch, the Ca­nine Branch, the Tran­sit Po­lice, the Trinidad and To­ba­go De­fence Force, the Li­cens­ing Of­fice and Traf­fic War­dens.