Po­lice Con­sta­ble Amon An­drews re­mains in crit­i­cal con­di­tion, af­ter be­ing am­bushed and shot mul­ti­ple times dur­ing an at­tempt­ed rob­bery ear­ly yes­ter­day.

The 51-year-old of­fi­cer, at­tached to the Arou­ca Po­lice Sta­tion, was at­tacked around 2 am while head­ing home at Skin­ner Street, off Con­stan­tine Street, Arou­ca.

Po­lice said An­drews was con­front­ed by a gun­man who tried to rob him. In­ves­ti­ga­tors be­lieve the of­fi­cer strug­gled with the as­sailant be­fore be­ing shot in the chest, up­per mid-back and left leg.