Hours after a confrontation between a Licensing officer and a maxi-taxi driver along the Southern Main Road, Curepe, on Monday, the dri­ver was arrested by police.

The incident occurred around 10.30 a.m. on Monday when PC Ali and PC Hard­ing, attached to the Las Lomas Police Post, respon­ded to a report of an assault in the vicinity of the East Grove Housing Development in the St Joseph police district.

Police said a Licensing offi­cer reported that while carrying out his duties, he was allegedly assaulted by the driver of a green-band Route 3 maxi-taxi.