Four officers injured in weekend operation, one taken into custody

By Dana Malcolm 

Staff Writer

#TurksandCaicos, November 14, 2022 – One suspect could be facing up to 30 years in prison after he sent four policemen to hospital during an altercation over the weekend.

Police say officers from the Bahamian and Turks and Caicos’ tactical units along with the Immigration Department, and Response & Operations entered an area located behind Caicos Lodge and Lower Bight Road around 5 am on November 12th to take in suspected illegal migrants.

While they managed to detain twenty migrants, thirteen males and seven females, as they tried  to arrest a man and a woman, the man became violent, giving one police officer a head injury and a suspected broken finger.  Two more officers suffered what the TCI police report described as ‘serious hand injuries’ and one immigration officer suffered a minor hand injury.

The police report did not support the widespread speculation that an officer from the Bahamian squad was shot with a gun.

The suspect was finally taken down with a taser and the injured, taken to hospital.  The suspect sustained injuries to his left eye and was treated before being arrested along with the woman, who was with him at the scene.

The man can be charged with any range of offences including the newly passed wounding or shooting at law enforcement including police and immigration officers contained in the recently passed Anti-Gang ordinance; jail for a conviction of this crime is up to 30 years.