Po­lice are in­ves­ti­gat­ing the fa­tal shoot­ing of a Spe­cial Re­serve Po­lice (SRP) of­fi­cer while he was on du­ty at the Min­istry of Rur­al De­vel­op­ment and Lo­cal Gov­ern­ment at Kent House in Mar­aval yes­ter­day.

Min­is­ter Khadi­jah Ameen was not at the of­fice at the time, and po­lice said the in­ci­dent did not pose any dan­ger to of­fi­cials and mem­bers of staff at the min­istry.

Po­lice re­port­ed that short­ly af­ter 3 pm, of­fi­cer Ja­mal Charles was on sen­try du­ty with two oth­er of­fi­cers in a booth just out­side the min­istry’s head of­fice, when he was shot in the neck with a col­league’s gun.