Two people have been arrested in separate assaults on officers – the 25th and 26th assaults on police so far this year.
On 26 Aug., A woman was arrested in connection with an incident where a female police officer was kicked in the stomach.
Officers were called to a house in Bodden Town shortly after 11:10pm over complaints of loud music, the Royal Cayman Islands Police Service said in a news release. When they arrived at the address on Doubletree Lane, officers spotted a man wanted in relation to an earlier wounding incident.
Officers approached and attempted to arrest the man, police said, when other persons began to behave aggressively towards them, “with one woman physically attempting to prevent the officers from carrying out the arrest. The officers separated the two and successfully arrested the wanted man”, the release said.
The woman began to aggressively resist arrest, however, and in the ensuing struggle, police allege that the woman kicked an officer in her abdomen.
Officers intervened and the woman, 38, was arrested on suspicion of obstruction and assaulting police.
The arrested man, 29, from Bodden Town, was later charged in connection with a previous malicious wounding and common assault.
The female officer was taken to hospital for treatment and was later released.
A police spokeswoman warned that assaults on officers will not be tolerated and offenders would be “dealt with to the fullest extent of the law”.
The woman officer was the 25th police officer to be assaulted this year, Commissioner of Police Kurt Walton told the Compass.
He was speaking as he signalled a zero tolerance approach to assaults on officers and revealed that police were to get bodycams to discourage potential attackers. He also said tasers would be made more widely available to personnel.
Second assault
Another officer was assaulted on the morning of 30 Aug., resulting in one man being arrested.
Just after 2:30am, officers on patrol came across a vehicle with the engine running on Shedden Road in George Town, the RCIPS said in a news release.
A man inside the vehicle appeared to be in distress, police said, and concerned for his well-being, they spoke with him before he exited the vehicle.
Officers said they found him to be intoxicated. After a brief interaction, the man attempted to re-enter the vehicle, but was prevented from doing so by the officers due to the state of his alleged intoxication.
During a struggle, he punched one of the officers in the face, causing him injury.
The Bodden Town man, aged 31, was arrested on suspicion of assaulting police, threats to kill, being in charge of a motor vehicle while intoxicated, and disorderly conduct at a police station. He remains in custody pending further investigation.
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