Three al­leged gang af­fil­i­ates have been de­tained un­der State of Emer­gency (SoE) reg­u­la­tions.

The or­der came from Min­is­ter of Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty Fitzger­ald Hinds, who yes­ter­day is­sued the three de­ten­tion or­ders un­der the Emer­gency Pow­ers Reg­u­la­tions.

The first de­ten­tion or­der, pub­lished as Le­gal No­tice No 54 of 2025 in the Trinidad and To­ba­go Gazette, was is­sued against Ster­ling Wal­cott, of Pep­per Vil­lage, Fyz­abad. Au­thor­i­ties iden­ti­fied Wal­cott as the leader of the Oropouche Gang, a crim­i­nal or­gan­i­sa­tion op­er­at­ing with­in Oropouche and neigh­bour­ing ar­eas.