Police investigating this week’s major gun haul at a Central warehouse believe they may have a lead in the investigations and say that an arrest will soon be made.
A police source confirmed to Guardian Media that a suspect may be able to assist them with their investigation to ensure a further major breakthrough on the exact US origin of the cache of arms and ammunition and to whom it was destined for and its purpose.
Local police officers continue to partner with foreign intelligence agencies with regards to the haul along with last week’s haul at the Piarco Bond.
Police Commissioner Gary Griffith said on Wednesday that he is concerned about the recent intelligence led operations that recovered a large cache of high powered weapons and ammunition at the Bond in Piarco and the Central Warehouse.
Griffith was speaking at the weekly TTPS media briefing.
Griffith said his officers face on an almost daily basis the types of weapons found and seized while performing their duties once every four days, “once in every four days a police officer is shot at.
Six officers being killed over the last three years...Those same weapons were found in an atmosphere where there were 114 death threats against police officers over the last 30 months, including 33 made against him and his relatives. Seven were made against the head of the Special Operations Response Team—then Inspector Mark Hernandez—and 74 on officers in the execution of their duties.”
“My concept of diplomacy when it comes to armed conflict against criminal elements, where they have weapons of war to cause death and mayhem, my concept of diplomacy is to fireback with equal and more accurate force within the law,” Griffith said.
On Monday, police raided the warehouse in Couva and found several guns and a large quantity of ammunition of various calibres.
The intelligence revealed that this shipment was housed at a warehouse situated off the Southern Main Road, Mc Bean, Couva.
