A se­ries of ear­ly morn­ing po­lice ex­er­cis­es led to the seizure of unau­tho­rised video cam­eras, which of­fi­cers sus­pect may have been used in mon­i­tor­ing their pa­trols and the move­ments of ri­val crim­i­nal gangs.

The ex­er­cis­es, which be­gan at around 3 am, in­volved of­fi­cers of the Besson Street CID, the Port-of-Spain Task Force, the In­ter Agency Task Force (IATF), the Guard and Emer­gency Branch (GEB) and the T&T Reg­i­ment. The joint unit vis­it­ed sev­er­al ar­eas on Pro­duc­tion Av­enue and lat­er Pi­o­neer Dri­ve, where there had been com­mu­ni­ty vi­o­lence re­cent­ly, fol­low­ing a brawl among res­i­dents on Car­ni­val Mon­day (March 3).

As has been a cus­tom when they are go­ing in­to “hotspot” com­mu­ni­ties, the of­fi­cers in­vit­ed a T&T Elec­tric­i­ty Com­mis­sion (T&TEC) crew to check for il­le­gal elec­tric­i­ty con­nec­tions, hav­ing no­ticed such ac­tiv­i­ty as a trend in such ar­eas.