Police recover arms, ammunition in Central exercise
Police officers have recovered illegal firearms along with live ammunition in an Intelligence-led operation in Central Trinidad on Thursday.
A 60-year-old man was also arrested for possession of cocaine during the said operation.
According to a police report, between 11 am and 8 pm on Thursday a party of officers assigned to the Central Division's Task Force acted on information received and went to an open parcel of land at Onyx Drive, Carlsen Field, where they found a revolver and three rounds of ammunition hidden among the bushes.
Garcia: No need for panic over school threats
Education Minister Anthony Garcia said pranksters will not be allowed to disrupt the administration of CSEC and CAPE examinations. Stricter security measures have been introduced following email messages sent out overnight about bombs being planted at several secondary schools across the country.
Speaking from his office at the Education Tower, Port-of-Spain, earlier today Garcia assured students and parents that there is nothing to panic about.
Police, soldiers search Laventille for escapees
Several arms of the law enforcement including the army spent several hours in Laventille this morning in an anti-crime exercise hoping to flush out escapees Denboe Olatungi and Michael Findlay.
The police including Port of Spain Task Force, Inter-Agency Task Force(IATF), Guard and Emergency Branch(GEB) searched homes concentrated in the Eastern Quarry, Laventille area for the wanted men after receiving information.
The search has so far turned up empty handed but one senior police source said they were not giving up and that they were hot in the heels of the men.
Escapees still on run one week later
One week after a major prison break at the Golden Grove Remand Yard in Arouca, the last two remaining prisoners remain on the run, police officers are continuing their searches leaning more, however, on intelligence as their only hope of a breakthrough.
A last major search for the escapees occurred in Laventille on Thursday at about 3 am where officers of the Besson Street Police Station searched a house in the area.
In a video released on social media Thursday, a male voice claimed that police officers came to his house and broke down the walls and doors to gain entry.
Officers commended for foiling robbery with violence
Four officers attached to the Southern Division have been commended for their work in the foiling of a robbery with violence which occurred in Tableland on April 27th, 2019.
Sgt. Sankar, PC King, PC Mohammed and PC Ramlal, were today commended by Senior Superintendent Zamsheed Mohammed, at the Southern Division Divisional Headquarters in San Fernando.
On April 27th 2019, the officers responded to a report of a robbery in progress on Naparima Mayaro Road, Tableland, when they observed four men armed with firearms exiting the premises.
Women and children among 93 Venezuelans held in Palo Seco
by Radhica De Silva
Hiding in a forest camp in the hills of Palo Seco, 93 Venezuelans were arrested by police shortly after they landed in a pirogue on the Southern coast.
Looking harrassed and scared, the Venezuelans stood under an unoccupied house near Aguillera Trace, Palo Seco Settlement for several hours before they were removed from the area in marked police buses and jeeps.
TTPS working with NYPD to strengthen homicide and anti-gang units
The Trinidad and Tobago Police Service is working with the New York Police Department (NYPD) on strengthening the performance the police's homicide and anti-gang units.
Police Commissioner Gary Griffith has met with representatives of the NYPD in keeping with the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between the Trinidad and Tobago Police Service (TTPS) and the New York Police Department (NYPD).
The meeting took place at the Office of the Commissioner of Police, at the Police Administration Building, Port of Spain Monday.
Coast Guard ready to join search for missing Venezuelans
The T&T Coast Guard (TTCG) is on standby should they be called for help by the Venezuelan Coast Guard as the search continues for 19 refugees, who have been feared drowned after the pirogue they were in sunk last Thursday.
The lone survivor of the incident, Alberto Abreu, 25, of Margarita, who was rescued by a US businessman Robert Richards, Virgin Islands, is currently in Grenada.
Gary wants proof of $18m TTPS debt to VMCOTT
The T&T Police Service (TTPS) owes cash-strapped Vehicle Management Corporation of T&T (VMCOTT) $18 million for maintenance and repairs of hundreds of police vehicles over the last 15 years. However, Police Commissioner Gary Griffith said not one red cent will be paid until VMCOTT provides him with invoices for the work done.
New leader of Venezuela's 'Evander' gang held in T&T
A man known as "El Culon" who only recently assumed leadership of the Evander gang was one of eight Venezuelans arrested over the weekend in a police exercise in Point Fortin together with a Trinidadian man who together/who are both considered masterminds of kidnappings, drug trafficking, gun running and human trafficking.