Five per­sons were ar­rest­ed and five firearms and quan­ti­ties of am­mu­ni­tion and nar­cotics seized, by of­fi­cers dur­ing an­ti-crime op­er­a­tions con­duct­ed across the coun­try on Fri­day.

In the North Cen­tral Di­vi­sion, Task Force of­fi­cers con­duct­ed an ex­er­cise in Area East be­tween 2:30 am and 6 am, dur­ing which, the of­fi­cers pro­ceed­ed to a bar where they con­duct­ed a search, which led to the dis­cov­ery of one re­volver and three rounds of am­mu­ni­tion in the stock­room area.

Two sus­pects, a 30-year-old man of Ari­ma and a 24-year-oldwoman of Pin­to, were ar­rest­ed in con­nec­tion with the find.

Mean­while, in the South West­ern Di­vi­sion, Task Force of­fi­cers, along with CID and per­son­nel of the Fyz­abad, Oropouche and San­ta Flo­ra po­lice sta­tions, con­duct­ed an op­er­a­tion in the Fyz­abad dis­trict be­tween 5 am and 11 am.

As a re­sult, one pis­tol loaded with 11 rounds of am­mu­ni­tion and a quan­ti­ty of cannabis were seized, and three sus­pects ar­rest­ed.

In Area North of the North­ern Di­vi­sion, Task Force of­fi­cers were on mo­bile pa­trol be­tween 5 am and 8 am, when act­ing on in­for­ma­tion re­ceived, they pro­ceed­ed to an open lot of land at Manuel Con­go, where they found one pis­tol, loaded with a mag­a­zine con­tain­ing two rounds of am­mu­ni­tion.

Mean­while, in the San­ta Cruz dis­trict, of­fi­cers con­duct­ed an ex­er­cise be­tween 1 pm and 4 pm, yes­ter­day, which re­sult­ed in sev­er­al ar­eas be­ing searched and one black shot­gun along with six 12-gauge car­tridges be­ing dis­cov­ered in an aban­doned con­crete struc­ture.

And, in the North East­ern Di­vi­sion, Task Force, Gang and In­tel­li­gence Unit and Barataria CID of­fi­cers con­duct­ed an ex­er­cise be­tween 3:30 am and 6:30 am, yes­ter­day, dur­ing which they found one ri­fle and 29 rounds of am­mu­ni­tion.