Fol­low­ing Fri­day’s shoot­ing in Care­nage which claimed the lives of three peo­ple and land­ed his god­son Ronal­do Syd­ney in the hos­pi­tal, Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley has ex­pressed con­cern about se­ri­ous al­le­ga­tions that there are rogue po­lice of­fi­cers op­er­at­ing with­in the T&T Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS).

At­tempt­ing to ad­dress an­gry res­i­dents at Big Yard, Care­nage, yes­ter­day, Row­ley said, "If there is ev­i­dence of rogue po­lice of­fi­cers in the TTPS, I would be the first per­son to tell you that has to be dealt with and I am not get­ting ahead of my­self ex­cept to say to you that in sit­u­a­tions like this, the next step is a thor­ough in­ves­ti­ga­tion."

While the an­gry mob con­tin­ued to de­mand jus­tice dur­ing his one-and-a-half hour vis­it last evening, Row­ley, who is al­so the head of the Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty Coun­cil ap­pealed to those in pos­ses­sion of record­ings and pic­tures that could point to pos­si­ble wrong­do­ing to sub­mit it to the re­spec­tive in­ves­ti­ga­tors.

Dur­ing the im­promp­tu vis­it in which he met with the fam­i­lies of those killed and wound­ed dur­ing the shoot­ing, Row­ley said, "There were some very se­ri­ous al­le­ga­tions made to me here this evening as the MP about a par­tic­u­lar of­fi­cer or of­fi­cers act­ing in a par­tic­u­lar way which is not what we ex­pect. We now have to de­ter­mine the ve­rac­i­ty of those state­ments and if it turns out that is so, then there are ways of deal­ing with that with­in the laws of T&T."

Row­ley ad­vised res­i­dents to let the in­ves­ti­ga­tors car­ry out their work.

Faced with an an­gry mob that grew row­di­er fol­low­ing his ar­rival in Care­nage, Row­ley lis­tened at­ten­tive­ly to the com­plaints from the res­i­dents who de­mand­ed im­me­di­ate jus­tice for the three vic­tims—Keron Eve, 30; Ka­reem Roberts, 27; and Nao­mi Nel­son, 14. Al­so in­jured dur­ing the in­ci­dent was Ronal­do Syd­ney, 21 and Chris­t­ian Eve, 31.

The cries of rel­a­tives filled the air and peo­ple were falling to the ground in grief. The PM held brief dis­cus­sions with the mem­bers of each fam­i­ly dur­ing which he ex­pressed con­do­lences and sym­pa­thies.

Row­ley’s se­cu­ri­ty de­tail main­tained a re­spect­ful dis­tance as an­gry men, cry­ing moth­ers, and even chil­dren rushed to shake the PM’s hand.

In a text mes­sage to Guardian Me­dia ear­li­er that day, Row­ley wrote, "There was a time when vi­o­lent gun crimes were in­ci­dents which oc­curred on­ly in cer­tain parts of the coun­try. Over the last decade, with the in­flow and avail­abil­i­ty of firearms through­out this small coun­try and the free move­ment of crim­i­nals in all our com­mu­ni­ties, no place is be­yond the in­ci­dents and no com­mu­ni­ty is im­mune to the ef­fects of this na­tion­al plague. As I am cur­rent­ly try­ing to come to grips with the loss of my friends to a knife-wield­ing in­trud­er in To­ba­go, I feel the pain of fam­i­ly and my oth­er con­stituents whose young daugh­ter was killed in the in­ci­dent in Big Yard, Care­nage. One young man, Ronal­do, who was al­so shot in Big Yard is my god­son who is so ex­cit­ed about his ef­forts at be­ing an events pro­mot­er. All this means that this di­et of vi­o­lence and lots of an­gry peo­ple mean that the job of law en­force­ment is get­ting no eas­i­er and the pain and trau­ma con­stant­ly re­mind us of our own vul­ner­a­bil­i­ties. As Head of the Gov­ern­ment and the Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty Coun­cil and as a rep­re­sen­ta­tive of a large com­mu­ni­ty and a friend of the Mills fam­i­ly in To­ba­go, I give all the as­sur­ance that every fea­si­ble op­tion will be ex­plored and every ef­fort will be re­dou­bled un­til we re­duce the lev­el of vi­o­lence in our so­ci­ety and bring crim­i­nals to jus­tice along the way."

John "Jok­er" Mills, 70, and his com­mon-law wife, Eu­lyn John, 61, were found mur­dered at their Cocrico Av­enue, Buc­coo home on Thurs­day.