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Thursday, July 10, 2025

$50,000 bail for cop on assault charges

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Rhondor Dowlat-Rostant
2088 days ago
20191021
PC Dale Balkaransingh appeared in the Chaguanas Magistrates' Court last Friday on two assault charges.

PC Dale Balkaransingh appeared in the Chaguanas Magistrates' Court last Friday on two assault charges.

A po­lice con­sta­ble last as­signed to Guard and Emer­gency Branch was grant­ed bail in the sum of $50,000 when he ap­peared be­fore a mag­is­trate charged with two counts of com­mon as­sault.

The court heard that on Au­gust 26, 2019, a 26-year-old woman, who at the time was in a co­hab­i­ta­tion­al re­la­tion­ship with the of­fi­cer was re­ceiv­ing coun­selling for do­mes­tic is­sues from a psy­chol­o­gist in Ch­agua­nas when PC Dale Balka­rans­ingh, 46, of 928 Nel­son Road, Lange Park, Ch­agua­nas, al­leged­ly stormed in­to the ses­sion de­mand­ing that the woman im­me­di­ate­ly stop the ses­sion and leave. She re­fused and Balka­rans­ingh al­leged­ly whipped out his li­censed firearm and point­ed it at both vic­tims, threat­en­ing them and in­di­cat­ing that no one would leave.

A re­port was made to the Pro­fes­sion­al Stan­dards Bu­reau and an in­ves­ti­ga­tion was con­duct­ed. Balka­rans­ingh was sub­se­quent­ly charged on Oc­to­ber 17 with two counts of com­mon as­sault on the ad­vice of the Di­rec­tor of Pub­lic Pros­e­cu­tion (DPP) Roger Gas­pard SC.

W/Cpl Mar­sha Bur­gan laid the charges and pros­e­cut­ed the case.

On Fri­day, Balka­rans­ingh ap­peared at the Ch­agua­nas 1st Mag­is­trate’s Court be­fore Mag­is­trate Nicholas Ali.

Bail was set in the sum of $50,000 to cov­er both charges with the con­di­tion that he keep 200 me­tres away from both vic­tims.

The case was lat­er ad­journed to No­vem­ber 15.

The in­ves­ti­ga­tion was led by Ag As­sis­tant Com­mis­sion­er To­taram Dookhie and in­clud­ed Supt An­tho­ny Rem­my and In­sp Sheri­dan Hills.


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