Two policemen are being investigated following their suspected involvement in a gun salute at a dance which was held on Saturday in Charlemont, St Catherine.

One of the policemen is attached to the St Catherine North police while the other is attached to the Special Anti-Crime Task Force.

Information received by THE STAR says the dance was being held to celebrate a bar-opening. The bar belongs to a well-known 'don', THE STAR understands.

According to reports, personnel from the Linstead police went to the dance in the wee hours of the morning after being alerted that gunshots were being fired there. After arriving, the cops saw two men who aroused their suspicion were searched.

After firearms were found in the men's possession, they identified themselves as policemen.

loud and boisterous

Further reports are that the men became loud and boisterous, arguing that they should not have been treated in such a manner.

"A police team responded to an alert of shots being fired in the community and two men were searched at a dance there ... . The men turned out to be policemen but were offensively loud afterwards," Inspector Travis Hill of the Area 5 Police Division said.

It is also said that things got even more heated and the police team had to call for back-up.

The two policemen were taken to the Linstead Police Station where the clash reportedly continued.

Following the intervention of a senior officer, the men were disarmed, their hands swabbed and the guns sent for ballistic testing.

"Based on the information we have gathered, the shots that were fired were in salute of the don who kept the bar-opening. We cannot say they were involved in the salute until the result of the ballistics tests are out," Inspector Hill explained.