Of­fi­cers of the West­ern Di­vi­sion Task Force seized two firearms and a quan­ti­ty of am­mu­ni­tion dur­ing an an­ti-crime ex­er­cise in Diego Mar­tin.

Ac­cord­ing to po­lice re­ports, around 4:30 pm, PCs Mur­ray, Mc Clean and Sa­ha­dath, pro­ceed­ed to an area known as “Duck Farm”, lo­cat­ed at the cor­ner of Cizan Trace and Blue Basin Road, Diego Mar­tin.

A search of the area was con­duct­ed and an As­tra Pis­tol loaded with six rounds of nine-mil­lime­tre am­mu­ni­tion and 160 grammes of mar­i­jua­na, were found hid­den on the roof of an aban­doned struc­ture.

The of­fi­cers al­so pro­ceed­ed to a stand­pipe in the area around 10 pm, where they found one sil­ver and black pis­tol wrapped in a piece of cloth fit­ted with a mag­a­zine con­tain­ing two rounds of nine-mil­lime­tre am­mu­ni­tion.

The ex­er­cise was or­gan­ised by Snr. Supt. Kelvern Thomp­son, co­or­di­nat­ed by Supt. Hen­ry and ASP Baird, and spear­head­ed by In­spec­tors Reyes and Grant and Sgt Car­mona.
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