A po­lice of­fi­cer at­tached to the Traf­fic Branch was grant­ed $15,000 bail with a sure­ty when he ap­peared be­fore a Jus­tice of the Peace yes­ter­day, charged with one count of Dri­ving Un­der the In­flu­ence (DUI).

Sergeant (Ag) John Phillips, 46, of Bournes Road, St James, was charged af­ter a breath­a­lyz­er test was ad­min­is­tered which re­vealed his breath al­co­hol lev­el ex­ceed­ed the pre­scribed le­gal lim­it.

Po­lice say that around 10:30 pm on Sat­ur­day, Ag Sgt Welling­ton of the Mara­cas/St Joseph sta­tion was on sen­try du­ty at the Mara­cas/ St Joseph Po­lice Sta­tion when he saw a sil­ver sta­tion wag­on re­vers­ing in­to the sta­tion com­pound.

He ap­proached the dri­ver of the ve­hi­cle, iden­ti­fied him­self and ques­tioned the dri­ver to de­ter­mine the rea­son why he was in the com­pound.

While he was ques­tion­ing the dri­ver, PCs Ma­haraj and Fi­garo of the mo­bile pa­trol ar­rived at the sta­tion and ap­proached the dri­ver.

They ob­served that the dri­ver’s eyes were blood red and his speech slurred.

At this point, the breath­a­lyz­er test was ad­min­is­tered.

The dri­ver sub­se­quent­ly iden­ti­fied him­self as Ag Sgt Phillip is at­tached to the Traf­fic Branch.

He is ex­pect­ed to ap­pear be­fore a Mag­is­trate on Wednes­day to an­swer the charge.