Fifteen Venezuelan nationals were detained during a multi-agency police operation in the Scarborough and Crown Point districts on Friday.

The exercise, Operation Trident, was carried out between 5 a.m. and 11 a.m., and involved officers of the Tobago Divisional Task Force, IATF/GEB, SIU, Immigration Enforcement, K9 Unit, Traffic, Scarborough and Shirvan Police, and the Trinidad and Tobago Regiment.

Thirty people were searched at an apartment complex in the Bacolet/Signal Hill area under the Emergency Powers Regulations. Street check forms were completed for all persons.