For­mer in­struc­tor at the Po­lice Train­ing Acad­e­my and law en­force­ment in­struc­tor, Oluye­mi Mashama, is urg­ing po­lice of­fi­cers to be mind­ful of the ex­tent of force they use to re­spond to threats.

His com­ment comes in the wake of an in­ci­dent in­volv­ing po­lice and a pa­tron af­ter the One Caribbean Mu­sic Fes­ti­val at the Queen’s Park Sa­van­nah, Port-of-Spain, on Sun­day morn­ing.

Af­ter the con­cert, sev­er­al un­hap­py fans threw glass bot­tles at the stage front. In re­spond­ing to the in­ci­dents, of­fi­cers of the Guard and Emer­gency Branch (GEB) were seen con­fronting a man who re­port­ed­ly threw ob­jects, be­fore beat­ing him sev­er­al times with a ba­ton and throw­ing him to the ground, where he was al­so kicked.