Officer critical after falling from upper level of police station

A po­lice of­fi­cer with less than a year of ser­vice re­mains in crit­i­cal con­di­tion at the Mt Hope Hos­pi­tal af­ter falling from the up­per lev­el of the San­gre Grande Po­lice Sta­tion.

The of­fi­cer, a Po­lice Con­sta­ble, is as­signed to the San­gre Grande Traf­fic Branch.

The po­lice ser­vice re­port­ed that around 4.30 pm on Fri­day, the con­sta­ble, who is still on pro­ba­tion, was at the po­lice women’s dor­mi­to­ry sit­u­at­ed on the east­ern side of the build­ing when he jumped through a win­dow. The of­fi­cer fell on top of a po­lice ve­hi­cle, shat­ter­ing its back wind­screen in the process.

He suf­fered se­vere head and fa­cial in­juries.

He was able to walk in­to the po­lice sta­tion, where he sat by the wash­room with fel­low of­fi­cers, tak­ing him to the San­gre Grande Hos­pi­tal where he was treat­ed.

He was then trans­ferred to EWM­SC Mt Hope Hos­pi­tal, where he is list­ed in crit­i­cal con­di­tion.

The TTPS con­firmed the in­ci­dent in a me­dia re­lease is­sued yes­ter­day.

When Guardian Me­dia con­tact­ed the head of the East­ern Di­vi­sion, Snr Supt Pa­ponette, for more de­tails on the in­ci­dent, he said he was in church.

In­ves­ti­ga­tions are on­go­ing. - Ralph Ban­warie