One of three ban­dits who held up and robbed a po­lice sergeant and his fam­i­ly at their San Fer­nan­do home on Sat­ur­day night may spend the rest of his life paral­ysed af­ter he was shot by the of­fi­cer.

The sus­pect, from Ram­bert Vil­lage, La Ro­maine, re­mains at the San Fer­nan­do Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal un­der po­lice guard.

In­ves­ti­ga­tors re­port­ed that his in­juries were se­ri­ous as there was or­gan dam­age.

He is well known to South­ern Di­vi­sion po­lice.

Po­lice said that around 10.30 pm, four men opened the front door of the sergeant’s home in Union Hall.

Armed with a knife and gun, the ban­dits or­dered the 56-year-old sergeant, his 53-year-old wife and chil­dren ages 24 and 23 to lie on the liv­ing room floor.

They then rum­maged the house, steal­ing the sergeant’s Huawei mo­bile phone val­ued at $1200, gold chain val­ued $700 and four watch­es worth $800. They took his wife’s Sam­sung S7 val­ued $3000, three gold chain es­ti­mat­ed at $3000 and an HP lap­top worth $4000. They al­so took his son’s Huawei mo­bile phone val­ued $2500.

One of the ban­dits or­dered the sergeant to his bed­room and de­mand­ed that he open a safe.

An­gered when the sergeant said he was un­able to open the safe be­cause of me­chan­i­cal is­sues, the ban­dit be­gan ap­proach­ing the fam­i­ly who was ly­ing on the liv­ing room floor.

Fear­ful for their safe­ty, the sergeant re­trieved his firearm from the bed­room and shot the sus­pect.

The oth­er ban­dits ran out of the house and es­caped.

Snr Supt Yusuf Gaf­far, In­sp Mo­hammed, Sgt Phillip and Sgt Ram­lo­gan led San Fer­nan­do CID and South­ern Di­vi­sion Task Force to the scene. Task Force of­fi­cers took the in­jured ban­dit to the hos­pi­tal where he un­der­went emer­gency surgery.

The sergeant, who re­tired last year and re­turned as a Spe­cial Re­served Po­lice of­fi­cer, and his fam­i­ly, were not harmed.

A search for the oth­er sus­pects con­tin­ued up to late yes­ter­day.