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.

“The PCA re­mains stead­fast in its role as an in­de­pen­dent over­sight body and con­tin­ues to call for ac­count­abil­i­ty, trans­paren­cy, and ad­her­ence to the rule of law in all po­lice in­ter­ac­tions with mem­bers of the pub­lic, par­tic­u­lar­ly in pe­ri­ods of height­ened se­cu­ri­ty op­er­a­tions,” the state­ment read.

Al­though the PCA did not dis­close the iden­ti­ties of those killed or de­tails of the cir­cum­stances, it as­sured each case will un­der­go a thor­ough ex­am­i­na­tion.

The most re­cent in­ci­dent oc­curred on Wednes­day af­ter­noon, when po­lice shot and killed es­caped pris­on­er Abra­ham Brig­gs along Guaico Tamana Road in San­gre Grande.

On Tues­day night, Kit­wana Wilkin­son, of Annabelle Street, Cou­va, was al­so killed dur­ing a po­lice op­er­a­tion tar­get­ing il­le­gal firearms and am­mu­ni­tion.

Two oth­er men, linked to the kid­nap­ping of Jankie Satie Karim, were killed on Mon­day night dur­ing an­ti-kid­nap­ping op­er­a­tions in Ari­ma and Ram­panal­gas.

One of the de­ceased has been iden­ti­fied as Zechari­ah Williams, 24, of Pi­ar­co Old Road, D’Abadie. The oth­er sus­pect has not been of­fi­cial­ly iden­ti­fied.

The ear­li­est of the five shoot­ings took place last Fri­day—the same day the State of Emer­gency was im­ple­ment­ed.

In that in­ci­dent, Ken­neth Agard was shot dead by po­lice dur­ing a con­fronta­tion along the En­deav­our, Ch­agua­nas over­pass.