ACTING Commissioner of Police Junior Benjamin says the vast majority of people engaging in confrontations with police officers are “those who are coming into homes and killing people.”

He spoke to Newsday on May 31, a day after an off-duty police officer shot and killed his neighbour, Frank Sandy, a pensioner, in Mt St George. Tobago. Sandy, 74, was said to have been suffering from dementia.

A police report stated around 5 am on May 30, the police officer was at house on Windsor Road when he observed a man trying to enter the front door. The report said the man lunged at the police constable with an object in his hand.