Act­ing Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice Mc­Don­ald Ja­cob has strong­ly con­demned the brazen killing of Spe­cial Re­serve Po­lice (SRP) Po­lice Con­sta­ble Kyle Lash­ley Sat­ur­day night in Les Coteaux, To­ba­go.

Re­ports in­di­cate PC Lash­ley, who was last at­tached to Crown Point Po­lice Sta­tion, was with friends around 7.10 pm on Sat­ur­day at Prov­i­dence Road, when a black Kia Cer­a­to stopped along­side them and two armed men ex­it­ed.

One of the men grabbed PC Lash­ley’s gold chain and shot him. The men then drove off.

Of­fi­cers of the Mo­ri­ah Po­lice Sta­tion re­spond­ed and took PC Lash­ley to the Scar­bor­ough Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal where he was pro­nounced dead on ar­rival.

Ja­cob said in a state­ment yes­ter­day that all re­sources of the Trinidad and To­ba­go Po­lice Ser­vice and Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty will be brought to bear in the in­ves­ti­ga­tions in­to the killing of the young of­fi­cer and that the is­land would be “scoured” un­til the per­pe­tra­tors of the crime are brought to jus­tice.

He said a con­tin­gent of of­fi­cers from the In­ter-Agency Task Force and per­son­nel from the Trinidad and To­ba­go De­fence Force were in To­ba­go to help of­fi­cers there to find the sus­pects.