POLICE are said to be investigating a report that a police inspector, with two other ranks, reportedly assaulted Police Constable Grant while they were on duty just before sunrise on October 22, 2014.

The Guyana Chronicle  has been informed that the incident which was reported to the ‘top-brass’ has  gotten the attention of the Police Office of Professional Responsibility where it was directed after a senior police officer became aware of the matter involving the senior rank and two others, while the three names were supplied to this publication.

According to reports, on the morning in question, the ranks were carrying out a raid at a location in the Police ‘A’ Division. The three ranks, including Constable Grant, who was reportedly assaulted, were seated in a police vehicle when the senior officer approached the vehicle and enquired with the use of profanities about their reason for sitting there.

The rank who filed the complaint reportedly cautioned his senior that the need for profanities was not necessary and the senior rank then aimed his obscenities directly at the rank who had objected. The rank again objected to the use of expletives and at that point, according to information received, the junior rank then addressed the senior rank with the identical profanities which were being used against him.

The senior police rank then instructed the junior officer to get out of the f%#@ing vehicle and go up the road and the rank refused. At the end of the raid the men returned to the Prashad Nagar Police station where the senior officer brought the misunderstanding to a physical confrontation.

The junior rank was reportedly ordered out of the vehicle by the senior officer and when he questioned the reason,  he was forcefully removed from the vehicle along with two other ranks and his firearm taken away.

At this point it is alleged that the inspector  ripped down the jersey of the constable and in  the process  the rank’s head was slammed against a wall several times before he was tossed to the ground and later thrown into the lockups.

He was left in the lockups under close arrest and was later released when he requested to be taken for medical attention.

He sought medical attention and was issued  a medical which was submitted with the report along with the damaged jersey.

Contacted earlier this week Crime Chief Leslie James confirmed that he did receive word of an incident and said that based on his information the matter is being investigated.

The senior police officer could not immediately confirm the details of the report which was made by the junior rank but  he assured that the police have been gathering information on the matter  from persons who were present at the time.