Cou­va po­lice of­fi­cers re­cov­ered a firearm, am­mu­ni­tion, and po­lice-is­sued items dur­ing an an­ti-crime ex­er­cise late Tues­day night.

Ac­cord­ing to re­ports, at ap­prox­i­mate­ly 10:40 p.m. on June 30, of­fi­cers at­tached to the CID/CRO Spe­cial Op­er­a­tions Unit, act­ing on in­tel­li­gence, con­duct­ed a search near a car park along Toolsie Street, Cou­va.

Dur­ing the op­er­a­tion, of­fi­cers dis­cov­ered a pouch hid­den in a bushy area. In­side, they found a Glock 19 Gen 4 pis­tol fit­ted with a mag­a­zine con­tain­ing fif­teen rounds of am­mu­ni­tion. Al­so re­cov­ered were a Ky­dex hol­ster, a Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice iden­ti­fi­ca­tion card and badge, and a Firearm User’s Li­cence book­let.