A Guapo school­boy is among nine peo­ple who have been is­sued with Pre­ven­ta­tive De­ten­tion Or­ders (PDOs) as part of on­go­ing ef­forts to con­tain vi­o­lent crim­i­nal ac­tiv­i­ties.

The school­boy, whose name is be­ing with­held as he is a mi­nor, was iden­ti­fied by po­lice in­tel­li­gence as some­one who was in­volved in “gang con­flict and re­tal­ia­to­ry firearm vi­o­lence,” as part of or­gan­ised crime groups in Guapo, La Brea and Point Fortin.

The no­tice, which was gazetted yes­ter­day, said the boy was in­volved in an in­ci­dent this year where he was seen en­cour­ag­ing an­oth­er per­son to fire a gun at a vic­tim.