Po­lice have ar­rest­ed 56 peo­ple, re­cov­ered six il­le­gal firearms, and de­tect­ed more than 400 traf­fic of­fences dur­ing the first 24 hours of the State of Emer­gency, which took ef­fect from mid­night on Fri­day 18 Ju­ly 2025.

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) said it con­duct­ed 104 co­or­di­nat­ed ex­er­cis­es across the coun­try, in­clud­ing 629 search­es and strate­gic road­block op­er­a­tions that un­cov­ered 407 traf­fic in­frac­tions.

The high-im­pact op­er­a­tions form part of a na­tion­al crack­down tar­get­ing mem­bers of or­gan­ised crim­i­nal syn­di­cates and gangs.