POLICE are investigating an incident where an off-duty Remand Yard, Arouca, prison officer accidentally shot himself in the foot on the morning of March 5.

Police said the Siparia station received a call from a nurse at the Siparia District Health Facility about a patient seeking treatment for a gunshot wound.

PC Marshall, Rampersad and others visited the facility and interviewed the man. He told officers he was going to a female friend's house around 1 am and she was driving him in his car. He told officers while on the way, he decided to clear his licensed personal firearm when a nine-millimetre round discharged and hit him on his left foot.