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One man was ar­rest­ed and two firearms, sev­er­al rounds of am­mu­ni­tion, and quan­ti­ties of nar­cotics were seized dur­ing an­ti-crime ex­er­cis­es con­duct­ed by of­fi­cers of the In­ter-Agency Task Force (IATF) and the Guard and Emer­gency Branch (GEB) on Sat­ur­day.

The ex­er­cis­es, which ran be­tween 3 p.m. and 9 p.m. on April 26, fo­cused on high-crime ar­eas across the North East­ern and Port of Spain Di­vi­sions.

Ac­cord­ing to the TTPS, around 4:30 p.m., of­fi­cers re­spond­ed to a play­ground on Up­per Er­i­ca Street, Rock City, Laven­tille, where they ap­proached the area tac­ti­cal­ly. Po­lice Con­sta­ble Say­ers re­port­ed see­ing a man in di­sheveled cloth­ing who, up­on spot­ting the of­fi­cers, fled north. Al­though the sus­pect es­caped cap­ture, PC Say­ers lat­er con­duct­ed a search of the area and dis­cov­ered a CPX-1 firearm with a mag­a­zine con­tain­ing four rounds of 9mm am­mu­ni­tion. The weapon and am­mu­ni­tion were seized and tak­en to the Besson Street Po­lice Sta­tion.