Rowley left numb by Malabar murders

Speaking at yesterday’s post-Cabinet press briefing at the Diplomatic Centre, St Ann’s, Rowley said when these sort of violent crimes occur there is a demand that the government do something about crime.

“And that demand is understandable because people want to feel safe, people want to feel secure and they want to know that their families and their communities are protected from these things but the interventions by individuals who make a decision to carry out these kind of activities shock us all the time because whatever we have in place, whether it is police, whether it is prison, whether it is court, we are always surprised by these kinds of developments,” he said.

Rowley said the police was the agency the Government relies on to secure the nation. He said they have to do things that allows the country to have a better police service.

“That is why right now the police service is being comprehensively reviewed by the Deosaran committee where we are trying to identify the areas where certain actions can and must take place to bring about better policing and that is why incompetence in the police service and corruption in the police service are matters that cannot be exposed to be anything but zero tolerance,” he said.