Po­lice seized il­le­gal con­tra­band dur­ing a joint in­tel­li­gence-led ex­er­cise at the Women’s Prison, Gold­en Grove, Arou­ca this morn­ing.

The op­er­a­tion was con­duct­ed be­tween 1.15 a.m. and 3.00 a.m. and was co­or­di­nat­ed by the Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice and the Trinidad and To­ba­go Prison Ser­vice. It was car­ried out un­der the di­rec­tion of Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice Al­lis­ter Gue­var­ro, Com­mis­sion­er (Ag) of Pris­ons Cor­raspe, and Deputy Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice Suzette Mar­tin.

The ex­er­cise in­volved an all-fe­male search team com­pris­ing of­fi­cers from the DCP Op­er­a­tions Team, the Spe­cial In­tel­li­gence Unit, the North­ern Di­vi­sion in­clud­ing North Cen­tral and North­ern North, the Na­tion­al Emer­gency Di­vi­sion, and mem­bers of the Prison Emer­gency Re­sponse Unit. The team was sup­port­ed by per­son­nel from the Guard and Emer­gency Branch.