Thir­ty-two peo­ple were ar­rest­ed, firearms and am­mu­ni­tion seized, and drugs re­cov­ered dur­ing a ma­jor law en­force­ment op­er­a­tion co­de­named “Sum­mer Slam.”

The co­or­di­nat­ed ex­er­cise, con­duct­ed across sev­er­al com­mu­ni­ties, al­so saw the ex­e­cu­tion of 14 war­rants, 42 stop-and-search­es, and the is­su­ing of 14 fixed penal­ty no­tices for traf­fic vi­o­la­tions.

Ac­cord­ing to po­lice, the op­er­a­tion led to ar­rests in con­nec­tion with firearm, am­mu­ni­tion, and rob­bery of­fences.

These in­clud­ed a sus­pect held for dri­ving with­out a dri­ver’s per­mit and cer­tifi­cate of in­sur­ance, pos­ses­sion of three rounds of 9mm am­mu­ni­tion, and rob­bery with vi­o­lence.

An­oth­er sus­pect was held for pos­ses­sion of 198 grammes of cannabis and rob­bery with vi­o­lence. Two more sus­pects were ar­rest­ed in con­nec­tion with rob­bery en­quiries, while two were held for lar­ce­ny en­quiries.

On drug-re­lat­ed of­fences, one sus­pect was ar­rest­ed for pos­ses­sion of 11 cannabis plants. Two oth­er sus­pects were held on war­rants for pos­ses­sion of co­caine.

Po­lice al­so held a sus­pect in re­la­tion to a ma­li­cious wound­ing in­ves­ti­ga­tion and two sus­pects for bur­glary en­quiries in St Mar­garet’s and oth­er ar­eas. An­oth­er sus­pect was ar­rest­ed on two counts of breach­ing a pro­tec­tion or­der.

Twelve peo­ple were ar­rest­ed on af­fil­i­a­tion war­rants to­talling more than $66,000, while eight oth­ers were held for en­quiries.

The seizures in­clud­ed two home­made shot­guns, two 12-gauge car­tridges, three 9mm rounds, 198 grammes of cannabis, and 11 cannabis plants.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice said the “Sum­mer Slam” op­er­a­tion formed part of its on­go­ing proac­tive strate­gies to com­bat vi­o­lent crime, drug traf­fick­ing, and pub­lic safe­ty breach­es.

In­ves­ti­ga­tions are con­tin­u­ing.