A police officer is now in hospital after he was attacked by a mentally challenged prisoner and his finger severed due to a bite.
Police PRO, Acting Inspector Pellam Jno Baptiste said the incident took place at the Grandbay Police Station on April 10, 2016, and Police Sergeant Nicholas Bruno is now a patient at the Princess Margaret Hospital (PMH).
“The prisoner bit the small finger of Sergeant Bruno’s left hand, severing the finger,” he stated.
According to Jno Baptiste, it is alleged that about 8:20 pm on the said date, Sergeant Bruno was transferring a suspected mentally challenged prisoner from the toilet facilities to the police cells at the Grandbay Police Station when he was attacked.
Bruno was transported to Grandbay Health Centre where he received medical attention before being transferred to the Accident and Emergency Department of the PMH, where he was seen by a medical doctor and admitted .
The poor police sergeant forget. You finger suspects in Grand Bay at your own peril.
Fellow D/cans let us be empathetic. It is not funny. Just think it could be you, a relative, friend or co-worker.
Sorry to read about that. When the officer writes his report he will have to explain how this occurred.
If this man was mental and based on his demeanor when he was arrested and brought to the police station, two police officers should have been in his presence. If so, this incident could have been avoided.
The mentally ill should be in a mental institution where they are monitored. It is said there are more crazy/mad people outdoors than there are indoors. Some are given medication and do not take them. They are out on the street, some causing a disturbance. It is then their mental illness flairs up.
This man’s teeth is sharp. I suppose he used force on the finger which caused it to sever.
I feel for that police officer. I visualize his discomfort. I hope he recovers, that the injury will heal in time.
God bless you and heal you.
There is another issue that no one has mentioned. It is time to start putting toilet facilitties INSIDE those damn cells. Nothing fancy…just a simple toilet so they can use. These trasfers back and forth from cell to toilet can cause a host of problems: attempted escapes, successful escapes, physical assault, murder etc. In this case, what if the mad man had gotten hold of a knife or a gun while he was temporarily outside thecell? mr. Bruno may have been lying in a mogue now, not a hospital bed.
Police enforcement time for toilets INSIDE the jail cells…It may not smell nice but it is the safe course.
This should be done and with a glass opening to see the prisoner or detainee. It will be stated, but for the cost. It could smell nice if it is properly cleaned, disinfected/fumigated.
Facts, you are definitely a pervert. You want a glass opening to watch prisoners do their business in the lavatory? Psychiatrists have a name for people like you, “Close counters of the turd kind”.
aIdiots mentally challenged people is capable of ommit a crime you know. They are not mentally unstable all the time ,there are times when they are well.Dominicans are not very undefdts ding of nental illness
This is a sad incident.
Yet so many of the commentators make a joke out of it or treat it lightly. This is a sick commentary on the condition of your society.
It is always a bad thing when a police officer is injured in the line of duty. When the injury was intentional it is even worse. We are not told why this “mentally challenged” man was in police custody but logic would suggest it was alleged he had committed an offence. The officer was obviously trying to help him
before he did something worse.
I wish you people would show better manners. Begin by not asking foolish questions and follow on by showing respect for the law, those who enforce it, and the offenders.
Sincerely Rev. Donald Hill. Evangelist.
There are things in life to which there will never be a real explanation, we see things and do not understand what we see; and so there are always more questions than answers.
In this case I fail to understand why a police officer allow a prisoner, sane or insane, or simply psychologically depressed to bite off his finger! It would appear when the police has the legal right to use brute force to protect themselves, they allow the assailant to prevail over them.
This police officer to me is a coward, if someone have my finger is his/her mouth, biting, unless I am in paralytic shock, I would execute blow to his temporal of the head and knock him/her out cold. Or I would execute a powerful blow to his esophagus cutting air from flowing throw his airways and disable him, he might die in the process; but, better the assailant than me!
huh? Sick bastard!!
Then should the officer end the life of the mental man, while his finger was in his mouth,you and others would be singing a different tune, saying “another victim of police brutality”
Man thats a joke man? Mentally Challenged? Does he still have teeth remainig? Just asking.
A mentally sick person not suppose to be in a cell without no meds .this man is in depression ect is there no a place for mental people
Unless you were there you would not know.
For some reason the man was apprehended. We are not told why, but this is the reason he was put in a jail cell. He was not put in jail for being “mentally challenged”. In such cases there is often no place else to put a person.
I hope he gets the help the needs and also that the officer recovers.
We need to pray for our law enforcement officers and their families. Policing is a difficult career. These people take significant risks to keep us safe.
Sincerely, Rev. Donald Hill. Evangelist.
Darlene, if we had secure facilities for the mentally disturbed in Dominica half the population would be locked up.
Did the prisoner bend down and bite the officer finger? I guess there is always more question than answers.
I DOE WANT LAUGH YOU KNOW….
But if he is mentally challenged, why was he placed in a police cell? Shouldn’t he have been in a facility for the mentally ill so he could be given the care and right medication for his condition?
This incidence begs the issue of more training of police officers to handle mentally challenged or folks having emotional problems. Crisis intervention team training, known as CIT, is one program for law enforcement and local communities to better respond to people experiencing these challenges.
The 40-hour training educates police officers on mental health conditions and medications, and introduces police to mental health resources in the local community.
Traditional training teaches police to control situations by demanding compliance, and the unpredictable nature of a person with a psychiatric disability can be misinterpreted as a threat and quickly escalate to violence. CIT training is meant to prevent that.
I just hope that man was not beatenup up badly by the police.
Or most likely this fool has been locked up many times and released by the judges, and his family already gave up, and don’t want nothing to do with him, so it fall on the police to deal with the scrap. and he is vex because he is locked up
Ouch!!
Sorry to hear that Sir
The old saying at home is if a crazy person bites you, you have to bite back or you will become crazy too. This is just one of those sayings ( don’t know if it is true or false). I am sure most people have heard this. So sorry officer hope you mend as quickly as possible.
how allu can put a mentaly challened person in prison?
Maybe he did a criminal act
Guns knives and teeth. All hidden weapons
Who knows maybe the guy had nothing to eat and was hungry, so he took a bite at the finger, knowing the way we in Dominica treat people with disabilities, who knows what the policedid to the guy to agitate him, even after the bite, who knows what happened to the mentally challenge individual, this is just my take
That’s so tru
Again!?! See why they die in cell?
lol compensated for being injured on the job – that is funny . Yes it should be the case but we all know it won’t What needs to be asked is what is going to be learnt from this. What provisions will be made for mentally ill criminals, and what support will be given to the staff that have to deal with them.
Damn! De man bite off your finger Sargey? Dem mad man deh doh easy at all eh? Please doh tell me mister eat de finger Sargey!! No doh tell me dat! Mister is a carnival..i mean cannibal man!
Tasteless sarcasm
Sorry about that. Just hope he gets compensated for being injured on the job
This can be very traumatic and career changing. Let’s hope he gets compensation and counseling.
What was his hand doing in the mans face when it got bitten