Police in St Lucia maintained "death lists" of people deemed to be criminals and planted guns at crime scenes to legitimise police shootings, a report has claimed.
The Caribbean island's prime minister Kenny Anthony said the "extremely damning" report found that in the deaths of 12 people, police had staged the shootings and reported them publicly as homicides by unknown assailants.
Members of the police high command may have been involved in covering up the truth about the alleged extrajudicial shootings in 2010 and 2011, investigators claimed.
In a national address on Sunday, Mr Anthony said: "The report confirms that the blacklist or death lists referenced by the media, human rights organisations, victims' families and citizens alike did exist."
The investigation - carried out by the Jamaica Constabulary Force - was ordered after the US withdrew all assistance to island police in 2013 over concerns about unlawful killings.
It found evidence had been interfered with at scenes of police shootings, while a server used by some police commanders was "deliberately tampered with".
The dozen killings occurred during a security initiative called "Operation Restore Confidence," which was launched as the tourism-dependent island grappled with a worrying rise in violent crime.
At the time, former prime minister Stephenson King publicly warned criminals that "no stone will be left unturned and there will be no hiding place for anyone".
During the period under review, five of the dozen men fatally shot by police were killed in a single operation in the southern town of Vieux Fort.
Mr Anthony said the investigators made 31 recommendations in their report, the main one being prosecutions for "all police officers involved in the unlawful killings of citizens" that they reviewed.
The prime minister said the public prosecutor must now determine whether to pursue cases against the officers.
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