Po­lice are in­ves­ti­gat­ing an in­ci­dent where a prison of­fi­cer as­sault­ed a po­lice­man and broke the win­dows of the Mal­abar Po­lice Sta­tion on Wednes­day night.

Po­lice said of­fi­cers were on du­ty at the sta­tion at 11.45 pm, when they no­ticed the man wear­ing on­ly a pair of grey box­ers bang­ing on the sta­tion door.

The of­fi­cers then saw the man kneel­ing on the ground and beg­ging them to “ar­rest him,” as he held his hands be­hind his back.

As one of the of­fi­cers ap­proached him and tried to speak with him, the man at­tacked him, grab­bing on­to the po­lice­man.

The of­fi­cer broke free as the man picked up two big stones near­by and broke a win­dow in front of the po­lice sta­tion and a sec­ond win­dow be­hind the sta­tion. Of­fi­cers even­tu­al­ly sub­dued the man and ar­rest­ed him.

The in­jured of­fi­cer and the sus­pect were both tak­en to the Er­ic Williams Med­ical Sci­ences Com­plex, Mt Hope, where they were treat­ed and dis­charged.

In­ves­ti­ga­tors said the sus­pect is a prison of­fi­cer as­signed to the An­kle Mon­i­tor­ing Unit.

He is ex­pect­ed to be tak­en to court to an­swer charges of ma­li­cious dam­age to gov­ern­ment prop­er­ty, as­sault­ing a po­lice of­fi­cer and re­sist­ing ar­rest.

Po­lice said they had no ex­pla­na­tion for the man’s er­rat­ic be­hav­iour. —Shane Su­perville