In con­tin­ued ef­forts to re­duce se­ri­ous crime and dis­rupt the il­lic­it drug trade, the Na­tion­al Spe­cial Op­er­a­tions Unit (NSOU), un­der the lead­er­ship of ACP Crim­i­nal Di­vi­sion Richard Smith and su­per­vi­sion of Ag. ASP St. Clair, con­duct­ed two op­er­a­tions on Sun­day, 5th Oc­to­ber 2025, in the Cen­tral and South­ern Di­vi­sions.

Be­tween 10:00 a.m. and 1:00 p.m., of­fi­cers searched a res­i­dence on Ab­dool Av­enue, off Cedar Hill Road, Clax­ton Bay, in the Cou­va Po­lice Sta­tion dis­trict. With sup­port from the TTPS K-9 Unit and act­ing on in­tel­li­gence re­ceived, of­fi­cers ex­e­cut­ed a war­rant un­der Sec­tion 12 of the Emer­gency Pow­ers Reg­u­la­tions, 2025.

Dur­ing the search, of­fi­cers seized ap­prox­i­mate­ly 118 grams of cannabis, with an es­ti­mat­ed street val­ue of TT$3,000. The 46-year-old un­em­ployed res­i­dent was ar­rest­ed for pos­ses­sion of cannabis and trans­port­ed to the Cou­va Po­lice Sta­tion. In­ves­ti­ga­tions are on­go­ing.

Lat­er, be­tween 1:00 p.m. and 8:00 p.m., a sec­ond op­er­a­tion was car­ried out in the San Fer­nan­do Po­lice Sta­tion dis­trict. Act­ing on cred­i­ble in­tel­li­gence, of­fi­cers searched a res­i­dence on Erin Road, Debe, oc­cu­pied by a 33-year-old labour­er.

The search un­cov­ered 36 con­tain­ers of cannabis plants in the yard. An en­closed ground-floor room con­tained an in­door grow op­er­a­tion with UV light­ing, air cir­cu­la­tion, and dry­ing sys­tems. The to­tal weight of cannabis seized was ap­prox­i­mate­ly 2.3 kilo­grams, with an es­ti­mat­ed street val­ue of TT$184,000. The res­i­dent was ar­rest­ed and con­veyed to the San Fer­nan­do Po­lice Sta­tion.

ACP Smith stat­ed the op­er­a­tions re­flect on­go­ing ef­forts to com­bat drug-re­lat­ed crime. In­ves­ti­ga­tions in­to both cas­es con­tin­ue.