A San Fer­nan­do po­lice of­fi­cer is in crit­i­cal con­di­tion af­ter be­ing shot dur­ing an op­er­a­tion in La Ro­maine late Fri­day night.

PC Alex Koon Koon, of the Crim­i­nal In­ves­ti­ga­tions De­part­ment, was wound­ed around 10.50 pm while on du­ty with Sgt Mar­tin and a par­ty of of­fi­cers from the Mon Re­pos Po­lice Sta­tion. The team had re­spond­ed to a re­port of a man armed with a firearm seat­ed in the gallery of a house in an area along La Plai­sance Road com­mon­ly known as Turn­ing Point.

Ac­cord­ing to a Po­lice Ser­vice (TTPS) me­dia re­lease, Koon Koon had just ex­it­ed a marked po­lice ve­hi­cle when gun­shots were heard com­ing from the gallery. In the im­me­di­ate af­ter­math, a man was seen run­ning away.