The Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) has ramped up its an­ti-crime dri­ve with a se­ries of tar­get­ed op­er­a­tions across the Port-of-Spain and West­ern Di­vi­sions on Sun­day, re­sult­ing in the seizure of nar­cotics and il­le­gal items—in­clud­ing near a com­mu­ni­ty cen­tre.

A state­ment from the TTPS yes­ter­day said that be­tween 9 am and 2 pm Sun­day, of­fi­cers in the Port-of-Spain Di­vi­sion car­ried out a high-vis­i­bil­i­ty hy­brid op­er­a­tion led by Se­nior Su­per­in­ten­dent Ram­nar­ine, Su­per­in­ten­dent Ram­sook, and ASP Singh. The op­er­a­tion fo­cused on sev­er­al crime-prone ar­eas in­clud­ing Beetham Gar­dens, Sea Lots, and parts of east Port-of-Spain such as Dun­can, George, Nel­son, and Duke Streets.

Dur­ing a search be­hind the Basilon Street Com­mu­ni­ty Cen­tre, of­fi­cers dis­cov­ered a black plas­tic bag con­tain­ing five trans­par­ent pack­ets of plant ma­te­r­i­al re­sem­bling cannabis, weigh­ing 120 grammes, along with three rec­tan­gu­lar ob­jects re­sem­bling pis­tol mag­a­zines. The items were seized.

Around the same time, mem­bers of the West­ern Di­vi­sion Task Force con­duct­ed Op­er­a­tion Stead­fast un­der the su­per­vi­sion of Se­nior Su­per­in­ten­dent Williams, Su­per­in­ten­dent Gyan, and ASP Aguillera, co­or­di­nat­ed by In­spec­tor Grant.

At 2 pm, act­ing on in­tel­li­gence, of­fi­cers searched an un­se­cured lot along Van­der­pool Lane, Diego Mar­tin, where they found 14 cannabis plants. The plants were seized and tak­en to the St James Po­lice Sta­tion for de­struc­tion.

The TTPS said in­ves­ti­ga­tions are on­go­ing and reaf­firmed its com­mit­ment to main­tain­ing a strong pres­ence across all di­vi­sions, dis­man­tling crim­i­nal net­works, and en­sur­ing pub­lic safe­ty.