The Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) con­duct­ed 426 an­ti-crime and road safe­ty op­er­a­tions across all ten Po­lice Di­vi­sions over the Di­vali week­end. The ex­er­cis­es took place be­tween 6 a.m. on Thurs­day 16th Oc­to­ber, 2025, and 6 a.m. on Tues­day 21st Oc­to­ber, 2025.

Ac­cord­ing to the TTPS, the op­er­a­tions re­sult­ed in six firearm seizures, in­clud­ing three ri­fles, along with 176 rounds of as­sort­ed am­mu­ni­tion. Of­fi­cers al­so seized 77.39 kilo­grammes of cannabis and 386.8 grammes of co­caine.

Dur­ing the pe­ri­od, 2,881 ve­hi­cle and premis­es search­es were con­duct­ed, while 282 road traf­fic op­er­a­tions were car­ried out. Po­lice de­tect­ed 2,042 road traf­fic of­fences, tar­get­ed 113 pri­or­i­ty of­fend­ers, and ar­rest­ed 161 per­sons.

The TTPS stat­ed that the op­er­a­tions fo­cused on ma­jor road­ways and were in­formed by in­tel­li­gence gath­ered in ac­cor­dance with the State of Emer­gency Reg­u­la­tions. Po­lice main­tained a pres­ence around na­tion­al in­stal­la­tions, busi­ness places, gov­ern­ment build­ings, res­i­den­tial com­mu­ni­ties, and Di­vali cel­e­bra­tions to en­sure vis­i­bil­i­ty through­out the coun­try.

The ex­er­cis­es were co­or­di­nat­ed by Act­ing Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice Ju­nior Ben­jamin, Act­ing Deputy Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice Op­er­a­tions Curt Si­mon, As­sis­tant Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice (Crime) Richard Smith, and all Di­vi­sion­al Heads. Di­vi­sion­al Com­man­ders and se­nior of­fi­cers par­tic­i­pat­ed in the op­er­a­tions.

The TTPS ex­pressed ap­pre­ci­a­tion to mem­bers of the pub­lic for their co­op­er­a­tion dur­ing the ex­er­cis­es. It reaf­firmed its com­mit­ment to main­tain­ing the safe­ty and se­cu­ri­ty of cit­i­zens and en­cour­aged con­tin­ued pub­lic sup­port in its ef­forts to en­sure a safer Trinidad and To­ba­go.