Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice (CoP) Al­lis­ter Gue­var­ro has agreed with Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar that tar­get­ed US bomb­ings of sev­er­al al­leged drug-smug­gling ves­sels off the coast of Venezuela in re­cent weeks have al­ready made a “mea­sur­able im­pact” on the lo­cal drug trade.

Con­firm­ing this dur­ing a me­dia brief­ing at the Po­lice Ad­min­is­tra­tion Build­ing, Port-of-Spain, yes­ter­day, he said, “Yes. What the TTPS can con­firm to you is that an as­sess­ment done from the in­tel­li­gence agen­cies, in­clud­ing the Strate­gic Ser­vices Agency, as well as the Spe­cial Branch and the Spe­cial In­ves­ti­ga­tions Unit of the TTPS, con­firmed that as a re­sult of the re­cent mil­i­tary strikes which were tar­get­ing the nar­co-ter­ror­ist mar­itime op­er­a­tions, there have had a mea­sur­able im­pact on the flow of il­le­gal nar­cotics in­to Trinidad.”

He said the price of il­lic­it nar­cotics had risen sharply be­cause of a short­age caused by re­cent US airstrikes and sev­er­al ma­jor seizures by lo­cal law en­force­ment in the past few weeks.