As the coun­try en­ters its fourth day un­der a State of Emer­gency (SoE), the T&T Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) is call­ing on cit­i­zens to con­tin­ue sup­port­ing its crime-fight­ing ef­forts, which now in­clude pre­ci­sion-guid­ed in­ter­ven­tions.

In a state­ment yes­ter­day, the TTPS Cor­po­rate Com­mu­ni­ca­tions Unit re­port­ed that of­fi­cers had con­fis­cat­ed eight il­le­gal firearms with­in the first three days of the SoE. The weapons in­clud­ed four pis­tols, two re­volvers, a shot­gun, and a ri­fle. High­light­ing the con­tin­ued threat posed by il­le­gal firearms, Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice Al­lis­ter Gue­var­ro said the ser­vice was em­ploy­ing “covert op­er­a­tions and strate­gic in­tel­li­gence” to move away from tra­di­tion­al en­force­ment tac­tics and to­wards proac­tive dis­rup­tion.

“This is not just polic­ing; it’s pre­ci­sion-guid­ed in­ter­ven­tion,” Gue­var­ro said. “But these gains are on­ly sus­tain­able through part­ner­ship.”

The CoP once again ap­pealed to the pub­lic to stand unit­ed with law en­force­ment, urg­ing cit­i­zens to re­ject the “noise of naysay­ers and key­board war­riors” who, he claimed, of­ten lack cred­i­ble polic­ing ex­pe­ri­ence.

“Most have nev­er ar­rest­ed a sus­pect, laid a charge, or faced the sober­ing ac­count­abil­i­ty of a court­room,” he said. “This mo­ment de­mands uni­ty, not dis­trac­tion. When we sup­port our of­fi­cers and am­pli­fy the truth over spec­u­la­tion, we strength­en our com­mu­ni­ties and reaf­firm our col­lec­tive com­mit­ment to safe­ty and progress.”

Re­flect­ing on the scale of po­lice op­er­a­tions over the past 72 hours, Gue­var­ro said of­fi­cers and sol­diers had car­ried out 185 co­or­di­nat­ed op­er­a­tions, in­clud­ing 1,185 search­es and 94 traf­fic ex­er­cis­es. A to­tal of 81 peo­ple were ar­rest­ed and 715 traf­fic of­fences were de­tect­ed.

“Ap­prox­i­mate­ly 70 pri­or­i­ty of­fend­ers were iden­ti­fied and tar­get­ed,” he added, not­ing that the op­er­a­tions al­so led to the seizure of vary­ing quan­ti­ties of mar­i­jua­na and 47 rounds of as­sort­ed am­mu­ni­tion.

“These re­sults are a clear in­di­ca­tion that sus­tained op­er­a­tional pres­sure can yield tan­gi­ble out­comes in the fight against crime and traf­fic vi­o­la­tions,” Gue­var­ro said.

“Our of­fi­cers re­main vig­i­lant and com­mit­ted to dis­rupt­ing crim­i­nal ac­tiv­i­ty, pro­tect­ing com­mu­ni­ties, and en­sur­ing safer roads.”