Some 14 im­mi­grants were tak­en in­to po­lice cus­tody on Thurs­day by of­fi­cers of the South-West­ern Di­vi­sion dur­ing an an­ti-crime ex­er­cise con­duct­ed in Erin.

Ac­cord­ing to po­lice re­ports, the 14 im­mi­grants had en­tered the coun­try il­le­gal­ly.

The TTPS ex­er­cise took place be­tween 3:00 pm and 6:00 pm on Wednes­day (May 22, 2025).

Act­ing on, of­fi­cers of the South West­ern Di­vi­sion­al Task Force re­ceived in­for­ma­tion that led them to the coast­line near the Erin Fish­ing De­pot, where sev­er­al per­sons be­lieved to be Venezue­lan na­tion­als had been ob­served.

Sub­se­quent en­quiries re­vealed that the in­di­vid­u­als had en­tered the coun­try il­le­gal­ly.

A to­tal of six­teen per­sons—eleven males and five fe­males, in­clud­ing two in­fants, a teenag­er, and adults rang­ing in age from 18 to 47 years—were de­tained and tak­en to the Erin Po­lice Sta­tion.

The Im­mi­gra­tion Di­vi­sion was no­ti­fied of their de­ten­tion.

The ex­er­cise was co­or­di­nat­ed by Se­nior Su­per­in­ten­dent Thomp­son, As­sis­tant Su­per­in­ten­dents Forbes, Cor­rie, and Syl­van, and In­spec­tors Sir­ju and Prescott. It was su­per­vised by Cor­po­ral Patrice.