The Po­lice Com­plaints Au­thor­i­ty (PCA) has ex­pressed con­cern about the in­crease in fa­tal po­lice-in­volved shoot­ings since the de­c­la­ra­tion of the State of Emer­gency (SoE) in Trinidad and To­ba­go.

The PCA is­sued a state­ment fol­low­ing re­ports in­di­cat­ing that since the SoE was de­clared, five men have been killed dur­ing con­fronta­tions with po­lice.

“In the five days since the state of emer­gency has com­menced, there have been five in­ci­dents of po­lice-in­volved fa­tal shoot­ings. The PCA is ac­tive­ly mon­i­tor­ing these oc­cur­rences and is com­mit­ted to thor­ough­ly in­ves­ti­gat­ing each in­ci­dent, in ac­cor­dance with its leg­isla­tive man­date,” the Au­thor­i­ty said.