A po­lice ex­er­cise con­duct­ed in the North East­ern Di­vi­sion by of­fi­cers of the North Cen­tral Di­vi­sion Task Force (NCDTF) led to the dis­cov­ery and seizure of some 104 rounds of am­mu­ni­tion near An­gela Trace, Mor­vant.

Ac­cord­ing to po­lice, around 2:00 pm yes­ter­day (Mon­day, May 29), mem­bers of the NCDTF ob­tained in­for­ma­tion that led them to An­gela Ter­race, Mor­vant, where they trekked ap­prox­i­mate­ly 20 me­ters in­to a bushy area and con­duct­ed a search.

Dur­ing the search, of­fi­cers found hid­den be­tween an old truck tyre, one grey book bag with a green met­al am­mu­ni­tion box con­tain­ing var­i­ous types of am­mu­ni­tion: 71 9-mil­lime­tre rounds, 30 7.62-mil­lime­tre rounds, and three rounds of .357 am­mu­ni­tion.

The il­le­gal items were se­cured and tak­en to the Arou­ca Po­lice Sta­tion.

PC Nor­ie­ga in con­tin­u­ing en­quiries.

The TTPS al­so re­ports that around 4:30pm on the same day, of­fi­cers re­ceived in­for­ma­tion that led them to up­per Ed­na Hill, Bon Air North, Arou­ca, where they re­cov­ered a Hyundai Elantra which was re­port­ed stolen in the Trinci­ty area ear­li­er in the day.

The TTPS says the ex­er­cise formed part of Op­er­a­tion ‘Re­al Steel’ an ini­tia­tive de­signed by ACP Wayne Mys­tar, co­or­di­nat­ed by Snr Supt Ram­phall, and spear­head­ed by Supt. Now­butt, W/Asp Pow­der and Sgt Pam­phille. It was su­per­vised by Cpl Morang along with mem­bers of the NCDTF/East, and was car­ried out from 1:00 pm to 5:00 pm.