A POLICE officer attached to the Sangre Grande station is believed to have died by suicide yesterday afternoon, in an incident that also left a member of the Inter-Agency Task Force (IATF) with a gunshot wound.

Reports indicated Cpl Yohanis Joseph was at the station shortly after 2.30 p.m., when the fatal incident occurred.

Police told the Express the officer assigned to the IATF saw Joseph and attempted to intervene, but was shot once in the leg.