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A Form One stu­dent of the Coryal Sec­ondary School in Cu­mu­to has be­come the first per­son to be de­tained by the new­ly formed School Ori­ent­ed Polic­ing Unit, af­ter he was found with a quan­ti­ty of mar­i­jua­na and wrap­ping pa­per at school yes­ter­day.

The 13-year-old, of East Trinidad, was in po­lice cus­tody up to last night as in­ves­ti­ga­tions con­tin­ued.

Re­ports in­di­cate that one of the po­lice of­fi­cers as­signed to the school re­ceived cer­tain in­for­ma­tion around 11.30 am, fol­low­ing which he ap­proached the stu­dent and or­dered him to emp­ty his pock­ets.