RESIDENTS of Triumph are upset over a police operation on Monday that saw several persons, including four females, being thrown into lockups on the East Coast Demerara.The arrests were part of an operation by the police who were investigating the Bank of Baroda robbery at Mon Repos last Friday.

LOOKING FOR SUSPECTS
On Monday around noon the police visited an apartment building in Triumph and carried out a search, saying that they were looking for some suspects, one resident told this publication.
According to the woman, the police tumbled up her home and came up empty handed and did the same to several other rooms in the apartment building but found nothing of evidential value.
Later in the afternoon, the police returned to the area and rounded up several persons, including the women, and placed them in police vehicles and took them down to the Criminal Investigation Department.
Throughout the operation, residents said that they were unaware of why exactly they were being taken down to the police station. According to one resident, the police even detained a woman who had come from the interior to seek medical attention.
Eleven persons were booked at Sparendaam, Beterverwagting and Vigilance Police Stations where they spent Monday night before being asked to post bail in the sum of $30,000 each.
It was reported to this publication that it took several calls from one police station to the next, and from one police officer to the next before the persons could have been told that they were all being booked for robbery under arms.
Police sources indicated that the operation on Monday resulted from information received that the suspects who had robbed the Bank of Baroda had some contact with persons at the location, and that one of the bandits was even dropped off there.
Meanwhile, the police so far have two persons in custody over the Bank of Baroda robbery, and they reportedly provided the police with details of their crime. They are expected to be charged shortly and placed before the courts.

By Leroy Smith