Man chops cop on hand

Police are searching for a suspect who chopped a 31-year-old off-duty policeman several times on his hand on Friday night.

The policeman was attacked several hours after another policeman, PC Larry Legende, was stabbed by a retired soldier outside a Tableland bar early on Friday morning.  Up to late yesterday the ex-soldier had not yet been found. In the latest stabbing, police reports stated that at around 9.25 pm, PC Glen Steele, attached to the Mon Repos Police Station, was proceeding south along the San Fernando By-Pass when he stopped at the traffic lights at the Pleasantville intersection.

Reports stated that a man brandishing a cutlass appraoched his car and started chopping it. The policeman came out of his car and was attacked by the man who chopped him repeatedly on his left hand. Steele called out for help and ran from his assailant. The suspect got scared and ran away in the opposite direction. Steele is warded in a stable condition at the San Fernando General Hospital. Mon Repos police are continuing investigations.