A fe­male po­lice con­sta­ble who at­tacked a pupil at a school in Port-of-Spain has been charged with as­sault by beat­ing of a mi­nor.

This fol­lows sev­er­al months of in­ves­ti­ga­tions in­to the in­ci­dent on May 7, in which the 11-year-old vic­tim was re­port­ed­ly as­sault­ed by the of­fi­cer, who is the moth­er of an­oth­er pupil at­tend­ing the same school.

Ac­cord­ing to re­ports, there was an al­ter­ca­tion be­tween the two pupils, af­ter which the of­fi­cer al­leged­ly con­front­ed and phys­i­cal­ly as­sault­ed the oth­er child.

A teacher then in­ter­vened and brought the in­ci­dent to an end.

The vic­tim was tak­en for med­ical at­ten­tion, and a re­port was made to the Pro­fes­sion­al Stan­dards Bu­reau, prompt­ing an in­ves­ti­ga­tion un­der the di­rec­tion of Deputy Po­lice Com­mis­sion­er of In­tel­li­gence and In­ves­ti­ga­tions, Natasha George.

The in­struc­tion to lay the charge fol­lowed con­sul­ta­tion with the act­ing Di­rec­tor of Pub­lic Pros­e­cu­tions, Sab­ri­na Dougdeen-Jaglal, who ad­vised that the of­fi­cer be charged by way of sum­mons for the of­fence.

The ac­cused ap­peared be­fore Mag­is­trate Marisa Gomez in the Port-of-Spain Third Mag­is­trates’ Court on No­vem­ber 11, fol­low­ing which the mat­ter was ad­journed to No­vem­ber 21.

The T&T Po­lice Ser­vice yes­ter­day reaf­firmed its com­mit­ment to up­hold­ing the high­est stan­dards of pro­fes­sion­al­ism, in­tegri­ty, and ac­count­abil­i­ty among all its mem­bers.