A female police constable attached to the Mandeville Traffic Division is currently in the custody of her colleagues after being arrested on suspicion of simple larceny.

The officer is accused of stealing a quantity of cheese valued at $125, and has been in custody since Tuesday.

Reports reaching THE STAR indicate that the officer, who was shopping in the Park Crescent branch of Super Plus, paid for goods amounting to just over $2,000. It is alleged that the officer then took the chunk of cheese and placed it in her shopping bag.

She was approached by a supervisor who questioned her and, after a search, the cheese was retrieved. It is also alleged that a quantity of credit cards, US and Jamaican dollars were found on her person.

The constable has not yet been charged and is being held at the Porus Police Station.