The Po­lice Com­plaints Au­thor­i­ty (PCA) has raised con­cern over an in­crease in po­lice-in­volved fa­tal shoot­ings fol­low­ing the de­c­la­ra­tion of the na­tion­wide State of Emer­gency (SoE) on Ju­ly 18.

In a me­dia state­ment yes­ter­day, the PCA con­firmed it is ac­tive­ly mon­i­tor­ing five in­ci­dents, all of which oc­curred with­in the first five days of the SoE.

As the in­de­pen­dent body tasked with over­see­ing law en­force­ment con­duct, the PCA said each case will be in­ves­ti­gat­ed in line with its leg­isla­tive pow­ers.