The act­ing Com­mis­sion­er of Pris­ons is al­lay­ing fears that prison of­fi­cers are un­der at­tack, af­ter two in­ci­dents in­volv­ing of­fi­cers over the week­end.

Four days af­ter an at­tempt on the life of Deputy Com­mis­sion­er of Pris­ons Sher­win Bruce and the shoot­ing and wound­ing of prison of­fi­cer Steve Phipps, two oth­er prison of­fi­cers re­port­ed that they were at­tacked on Sat­ur­day.

How­ev­er, act­ing Com­mis­sion­er of Pris­ons De­op­er­sad Ra­moutar la­belled the two in­ci­dents as “mis­in­for­ma­tion”. He said the in­ci­dents were not di­rect at­tacks against the prison or any of­fi­cer.

“The ve­hi­cle fire was an elec­tri­cal fire and the oth­er, the shoot­ing it is be­ing in­ves­ti­gat­ed but doesn’t seem to be a di­rect at­tack,” Ra­moutar ex­plained.

In the most re­cent in­ci­dent on Sat­ur­day at 9.10 pm, the of­fi­cer iden­ti­fied as Quin­cy Wil­son, 32 of Priz­gar Lands Road, Laven­tille was in his yard walk­ing to­wards his parked sil­ver Nis­san Ti­i­da when he heard sev­er­al gun­shots.

The of­fi­cer ran and took cov­er.

When the gun­shots ceased and he emerged from hid­ing the of­fi­cer went to his car where he saw two bul­let holes in the wind­shield.

Po­lice said Wil­son did not sus­tain any in­juries but said he felt pain in the right side of the hip and was lat­er tak­en to the Port-of-Spain Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal for treat­ment by a par­ty of of­fi­cers.

The scene was processed and eight 9 mm spent shells were found in the front of the vic­tim’s ve­hi­cle.

On Sat­ur­day morn­ing, a ve­hi­cle be­long­ing to a prison of­fi­cer as­signed to the Max­i­mum Se­cu­ri­ty Prison was re­port­ed­ly set on fire while parked at his home.

In­ves­ti­ga­tions are con­tin­u­ing.