COMMISSIONER of Police (CoP) Allister Guevarro says Venezuelan criminal elements are playing a growing role in TT’s crime landscape, particularly in the areas of narcotics, firearms and human trafficking.

His comments came less than 24 hours after Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar supported the US government's deployment of military assets to the southern Caribbean region.

Three US naval destroyers and a nuclear submarine with more than 4,000 marines and sailors are due to arrive soon in the southern Caribbean waters as part of an exercise to target drug cartels.