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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.”