A late-night raid at the Max­i­mum Se­cu­ri­ty Prison in Arou­ca on Tues­day un­cov­ered mo­bile de­vices, cannabis, cig­a­rette pack­ages, and hand­writ­ten notes be­lieved to be linked to threats made against se­nior law en­force­ment of­fi­cials.

The joint op­er­a­tion fol­lowed the cir­cu­la­tion of a voice note on so­cial me­dia threat­en­ing the lives of top po­lice and prison of­fi­cials.

The raid took place be­tween 7 pm and 11 pm and tar­get­ed sev­er­al cells with­in the fa­cil­i­ty.

Ac­cord­ing to the Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice, the raid was de­signed to dis­rupt in­ter­nal com­mu­ni­ca­tions that may have sup­port­ed ex­ter­nal threats and to mit­i­gate the risk to law en­force­ment.

Sev­er­al hand­writ­ten notes re­cov­ered dur­ing the raid are now un­der foren­sic analy­sis. In­ves­ti­ga­tions in­to the ori­gin and con­tent of the seized ma­te­ri­als are on­go­ing.

Com­mis­sion­er Gue­var­ro said the ex­er­cise demon­strat­ed the TTPS’ on­go­ing vig­i­lance and strong col­lab­o­ra­tion with the prison ser­vice.

“It al­so un­der­scores an un­wa­ver­ing com­mit­ment to safe­guard­ing law en­force­ment per­son­nel and for­ti­fy­ing the coun­try’s cor­rec­tion­al in­fra­struc­ture against il­lic­it ac­tiv­i­ty,” he said.

Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice Al­lis­ter Gue­var­ro and Com­mis­sion­er of Pris­ons Car­los Cor­raspe led the ex­er­cise, which was co­or­di­nat­ed by Deputy Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice for In­tel­li­gence and In­ves­ti­ga­tions Suzette Mar­tin and As­sis­tant Com­mis­sion­er of Pris­ons Lee Davis.

The op­er­a­tion in­volved mul­ti­ple units, in­clud­ing the North­ern Di­vi­sion CID, the North Cen­tral Di­vi­sion Task Force Area East, spe­cial­ist of­fi­cers from the Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice, Crime Scene In­ves­ti­ga­tors, and the DCP’s In­tel­li­gence and In­ves­ti­ga­tions of­fice.