PM's peacock probe stalled, CoP declines comment

The high-level police investigation into the killing of the Prime Minister's peacock has stalled as no information supports any act of criminal wrongdoing.

Asked for an update on the investigation at Thursday's media briefing, Police Commissioner Gary Griffith first passed the baton to acting Deputy Commissioner of Police Jayson Forde, but intervened before he could answer.

Griffith said if there was such a report it would be inappropriate to give information about a personal matter being probed by the police.

He then turned to Forde and asked, "How I sound?" before giving him a fist bump.

In June, Tobago police were alerted by an employee at Dr Rowley's Mason Hall farm that someone had knocked down the prime minister's peacock and driven away with the carcass.

Police later arrested three people and retrieved the dead bird. Rowley was summoned to the Scarborough Police Station, where he identified the dead bird as his peacock.

He has reportedly been making enquiries as to the status of the police investigation and the matter had been referred to the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions by acting DCP in charge of crime and intelligence McDonald Jacob.

Police encountered a hurdle under the Summary Offences Act to file any charges, as removing the carcass of an animal from a public road is not an offence.