un­der in­ves­ti­ga­tion for al­leged­ly beat­ing his 11-year-old son and then in­sert­ing his ser­vice-is­sued pis­tol in­to the young­ster’s mouth be­cause the boy stayed up late and did not take a bath when he was or­dered to.

The al­leged abuse by the of­fi­cer, who lives in an HDC hous­ing scheme, was high­light­ed af­ter his son took pic­tures of the bruis­es on his body and post­ed them in a What­sApp group shared by oth­er stu­dents.

In ad­di­tion to post­ing the pic­tures of his bruis­es, po­lice said the stu­dent told his class­mates his fa­ther al­leged­ly threat­ened to kill him.

As the post was cir­cu­lat­ed among the stu­dents in the group, po­lice said the boy’s moth­er be­came aware of what had hap­pened and rushed to the fa­ther’s apart­ment, where she took the boy and went to the hos­pi­tal.

Po­lice re­ports in­di­cate the boy lives with his fa­ther in close prox­im­i­ty to his moth­er’s res­i­dence.

The po­lice were no­ti­fied of the in­ci­dent at 12.35 pm on Tues­day by a se­nior mem­ber of the school’s Par­ent Teacher As­so­ci­a­tion, who learnt of it from the boy’s moth­er.

Po­lice said the mat­ter was al­so re­port­ed to the po­lice, and a re­quest for an Ad­min­is­tra­tion of Jus­tice In­dictable Pro­ceed­ings Act as­sess­ment was made.

Mean­while, arrange­ments were al­so made for the vic­tim to be in­ter­viewed by of­fi­cers of the Spe­cial Vic­tims De­part­ment at the St Clair Po­lice Sta­tion to­mor­row.

Con­tact­ed on the mat­ter yes­ter­day, act­ing Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice Ju­nior Ben­jamin ac­knowl­edged that se­ri­ous al­le­ga­tions had been lev­elled against the of­fi­cer and as­sured a thor­ough in­ves­ti­ga­tion will be car­ried out in­to the al­leged in­ci­dent. — A Paul