The TTPS is ad­vis­ing the pub­lic to be wary of a man mas­querad­ing as an of­fi­cer of the Cy­ber and So­cial Me­dia Unit and so­lic­it­ing in­for­ma­tion about peo­ple's ac­counts and emails.

In a re­lease on Sat­ur­day, the TTPS ad­vised, “There is no Sergeant HAMIL­TON at­tached to the Cy­ber and So­cial Me­dia Unit.”

The po­lice re­ceived re­ports from sev­er­al peo­ple that an in­di­vid­ual pur­port­ing to be a mem­ber of the Cy­ber and So­cial Me­dia Unit was re­quest­ing in­di­vid­u­als to di­vulge per­son­al in­for­ma­tion to as­sist in in­ves­ti­ga­tions.

“This is NOT in keep­ing with the Stan­dard Op­er­at­ing Pro­ce­dures of this Unit and this mat­ter is be­ing thor­ough­ly in­ves­ti­gat­ed,” they said.

Mem­bers of the pub­lic have been asked to de­sist from shar­ing in­for­ma­tion about their email ac­counts, so­cial me­dia ac­counts and pass­words.

Any­one with in­for­ma­tion on the in­di­vid­ual can con­tact the near­est po­lice sta­tion, or make a re­port via the TTPS App or the TTPS web­site.

Firearm, am­mu­ni­tion seized

Three peo­ple were ar­rest­ed for var­i­ous of­fences, and a firearm and quan­ti­ty of am­mu­ni­tion seized by of­fi­cers of the North­ern Di­vi­sion dur­ing an an­ti-crime ex­er­cise in St Joseph on Fri­day morn­ing.

The ex­er­cise was con­duct­ed be­tween 1 am and 6 am.

Of­fi­cers ar­rest­ed a 48-year-old Tu­na­puna man for pos­ses­sion of mar­i­jua­na; a 43-year-old El Do­ra­do man for pos­ses­sion of mar­i­jua­na; and a 39-year-old St Joseph man on an out­stand­ing war­rant.

At the north gate at Grand Bazaar, they found a pis­tol loaded with a mag­a­zine con­tain­ing five rounds of am­mu­ni­tion and a mag­a­zine con­tain­ing six rounds of am­mu­ni­tion in a black plas­tic bag. In­ves­ti­ga­tions are on­go­ing.

Man held with home-made gun

A La Hor­quet­ta man was ar­rest­ed af­ter a home-made firearm and one round of am­mu­ni­tion were seized by of­fi­cers of the North­ern Di­vi­sion dur­ing an an­ti-crime ex­er­cise on Fri­day.

Be­tween 4 pm and 8 pm, the of­fi­cers ex­e­cut­ed sev­er­al search war­rants.

Dur­ing the search at the home of the 31-year-old man, of­fi­cers dis­cov­ered a home-made firearm adapt­ed to car­ry 7.62 am­mu­ni­tion and one round of 7.62 am­mu­ni­tion.

In­ves­ti­ga­tions are on­go­ing.

The ex­er­cise which was spear­head­ed by Supt Ed­wards, ASP Cog­gins and In­sp Pitt in­clud­ed of­fi­cers of the Air Guard and Ca­nine Unit.

Pe­tit Val­ley man on DUI charge

A 28-year-old man was ar­rest­ed for Dri­ving Un­der the In­flu­ence (DUI) at the Cen­tral Mar­ket, Port-of-Spain, by Mu­nic­i­pal Po­lice of­fi­cers on Fri­day.

Of­fi­cers on pa­trol at the north­ern en­trance of the mar­ket around 4:55 am, stopped a grey Nis­san Wingroad mo­tor­car dri­ven by a man.

While speak­ing with the dri­ver, the of­fi­cers ob­served that his speech was slurred and there was a strong smell of al­co­hol from his breath.

The dri­ver was ad­min­is­tered a breathal­yser test with the as­sis­tance of a High­way Pa­trol Unit, which he failed.

The Pe­tit Val­ley man was ar­rest­ed and charged with DUI.