The Spe­cial Vic­tims De­part­ment (SVD) of the Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice has ar­rest­ed ten peo­ple and cleared 25 re­ports dur­ing a mul­ti-re­gion­al an­ti-crime ex­er­cise tar­get­ing of­fences against chil­dren and vul­ner­a­ble per­sons.

The op­er­a­tion, dubbed “Op­er­a­tion Bea­con”, was car­ried out across sev­er­al polic­ing di­vi­sions fol­low­ing what po­lice de­scribed as ex­ten­sive in­ves­ti­ga­tions by SVD of­fi­cers.

In Re­gion One (Port of Spain, West­ern and North­ern di­vi­sions), four men aged 24, 28, 28 and 36 were ar­rest­ed. Two were lat­er charged with of­fences in­clud­ing sex­u­al pen­e­tra­tion, sex­u­al touch­ing and as­sault oc­ca­sion­ing ac­tu­al bod­i­ly harm.