The gun of a po­lice of­fi­cer fired off as the pa­trol car he was in hit a speed bump, blow­ing off one of his toes on Tues­day.

The of­fi­cer is cur­rent­ly ward­ed at the Port of Spain Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal.

Ac­cord­ing to a po­lice re­port, at about 1 am on Tues­day the of­fi­cer along with two oth­er of­fi­cers were on pa­trol at Movi­eTowne, In­vad­er's Bay, when they re­ceived a call that a gun­man was spot­ted at Wa­ter­hole, Co­corite.

While speed­ing off in re­sponse to the call the po­lice ve­hi­cle hit a speed bump near the Mar­i­ott Ho­tel.

One of the of­fi­cers, up­on im­pact, lost his grip on his high pow­ered weapon and while try­ing to re­trieve it a round of 5.56 am­mu­ni­tion ac­ci­den­tal­ly dis­charged.

He was shot in the left foot, the bul­let sev­er­ing the mid­dle toe.

The of­fi­cers sub­se­quent­ly went to the St James Med­ical Fa­cil­i­ty in­stead where they sought help for their col­league.

The wound­ed of­fi­cer was then trans­ferred to the gen­er­al hos­pi­tal.

It is un­sure as to whether or not the doc­tors reat­tached the toe.