Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley and Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Fitzger­ald Hinds have both ex­pressed se­ri­ous con­cerns about the be­hav­iour of TTPS of­fi­cers fol­low­ing a fete at the Queen’s Park Sa­van­nah on June 16.

The in­ci­dent oc­curred fol­low­ing the Jam Naked event, which was held be­tween 3 am and 9 am last Thurs­day.

The video cap­tured sev­er­al of­fi­cers at­tempt­ing to de­tain two men who did not ap­pear to be com­ply­ing with in­struc­tions, fol­low­ing which the of­fi­cers were seen throw­ing one man to the ground and punch­ing and kick­ing him in the head.

Ques­tioned yes­ter­day about the lev­el of ag­gres­sion met­ed out by the uni­formed of­fi­cers, Hinds con­firmed that Row­ley, who is still out of the coun­try, has viewed the videos which were post­ed to so­cial me­dia.

The min­is­ter re­vealed, “He made im­me­di­ate con­tact with me as his Min­is­ter of Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty, ex­press­ing se­ri­ous con­cern.”

Hind said he too had viewed the vi­ral videos and had for­ward­ed their con­cerns to act­ing Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er Mc Don­ald Ja­cob, who had been asked to pro­vide a re­port on the mat­ter.

The min­is­ter said he re­ceived a pre­lim­i­nary re­port from Ja­cob be­fore 2 pm yes­ter­day. He said that he had not been able to “pe­ruse and to study” the re­port as he pre­pared to at­tend two pub­lic en­gage­ments.

Hinds added, “For the time be­ing, it looks like one of those is­sues in Trinidad and To­ba­go that al­most in­vari­ably leads to bac­cha­nal and con­fu­sion and a melt­down, but I am not yet aware of the ex­act facts and the de­tails. I await them as well, and I am sure that the process­es will take their course.”