Do­mini­can law en­force­ment au­thor­i­ties Mon­day vowed to dis­man­tle a gun run­ning syn­di­cate af­ter the po­lice said that near­ly 50 guns, in­clud­ing as­sault ri­fles, had been seized at ports across the is­land since the month of Jan­u­ary this year.

The po­lice have al­so warned that they “will do what they have to do with­in the am­bit of the law” to cur­tail the il­le­gal guns trade,” while urg­ing mem­bers of the pub­lic “if they see some­thing, say some­thing to get rid of the il­le­gal firearms”

Act­ing Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er, Lin­coln Cor­bette, told a news con­fer­ence that apart from the firearms seized so far, the po­lice are en­gaged in an in­ves­ti­ga­tion in­to the im­por­ta­tion of a large quan­ti­ty of firearms and am­mu­ni­tion in­to Do­mini­ca.