SHANE SU­PERVILLE

Se­nior Re­porter

A large sum of cash, in­clud­ing US cur­ren­cy, was con­fis­cat­ed by po­lice af­ter a house search in Val­sayn on Fri­day.

Po­lice said of­fi­cers of the DCP Op­er­a­tions Task Force, the Na­tion­al Op­er­a­tions Task Force, the Ca­nine Unit and oth­ers re­ceived in­for­ma­tion about sus­pect­ed crim­i­nal ac­tiv­i­ty at sev­er­al homes in Val­sayn and vis­it­ed it on Fri­day af­ter­noon.

In­side one of the homes, of­fi­cers dis­cov­ered TT $29,000 and US $2,500.

One man was held in re­la­tion to the seizure.

The en­quiry al­so in­cludes the Fi­nan­cial In­ves­ti­ga­tions Bu­reau (FIB), who will trace the ori­gin of the mon­ey to de­ter­mine whether it was used or pos­si­bly could be the pro­ceeds of any il­le­gal ac­tiv­i­ties.

The ex­er­cise was led by DCP Op­er­a­tions Ju­nior Ben­jamin, ACP Crime and Spe­cial Op­er­a­tions ACP Richard Smith, ASP St Claire and Cpl Steven­son.

Con­tact­ed for com­ment, DCP Op­er­a­tions Ju­nior Ben­jamin con­firmed the dis­cov­ery of the cash and said such ex­er­cis­es were im­por­tant to treat with fi­nan­cial crimes.

"We con­tin­ue to try and re­duce the crime prob­lem with these in­tel­li­gence-led op­er­a­tions and act on it,” he told Guardian Me­dia.

"We will con­tin­ue to do what we have to do to re­duce crime and bring per­pe­tra­tors to an­swer for any breach of the law and bring them be­fore the court,” he added.