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The Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) is warn­ing of height­ened threats to law en­force­ment per­son­nel, fol­low­ing the fa­tal shoot­ing of two kid­nap­ping sus­pects dur­ing co­or­di­nat­ed op­er­a­tions that led to the res­cue of kid­nap vic­tim Jankie Satie Karim.

In a state­ment yes­ter­day, Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice Al­lis­ter Gue­var­ro con­firmed that the TTPS car­ried out a se­ries of in­tel­li­gence-led op­er­a­tions be­tween the night of Ju­ly 21 and the ear­ly hours of Ju­ly 22.

These ef­forts cul­mi­nat­ed in the safe re­cov­ery of 44-year-old Karim, who had been ab­duct­ed on Ju­ly 13 and held cap­tive for eight days.