A Tactical Services Unit Inspector of Police is under close arrest after being unlawfully hired by a Berbice businessman and shooting a former employee of the man.
A police statement today said that investigations are being conducted into the matter which occurred at 6.35 pm yesterday at No.2 Village, East Canje, Berbice.
According to the police, the Inspector’s services were unlawfully secured by the businessman and the policeman went in search of the former employee who had allegedly embezzled money.
The police said that the inspector who was in plainclothes at the time located the former employee, who is a resident of Charlestown, Georgetown, at No. 2 Village and during efforts to arrest him “shot and injured him in the region of the left arm pit after he was allegedly attacked with a piece of wood”.
The former employee has been admitted to the New Amsterdam Hospital and the police rank is under close arrest.
