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The Trinidad and Tobago Police Service is hailing the success of its School Oriented Policing initiative, which has seen a reduction in school indiscipline and several student arrests.

However, the Service has confirmed a recent incident at Barataria North Secondary School involving a police officer and a student, which left one person injured. Rynessa Cutting reports.

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00:00TV6 News understands that a student of Barataria North Secondary School
00:05was injured following a violent encounter with a police officer.
00:10At Newstime, TV6 could not verify claims that the student had been hospitalized.
00:15As a result, the TTPS has confirmed the incident but were reluctant to...
00:20to give details.
00:21There was a particular situation that...
00:25From the very beginning, we have certainly...
00:30more investigations into that matter and we continue to do our investigations into the...
00:35matter.
00:36We are looking at...
00:37and we would ensure that up to the last...
00:40the last time that I checked on that matter, that all the necessary...
00:45statements were to be taken and a final decision to be made very soon on that matter.
00:50So...
00:51Was the officer injured?
00:52Or the child injured in the process?
00:54I...
00:55I think that a person was injured in that matter, yes.
00:58But...
00:59From all...
01:00As a result indication, the...
01:02the...
01:03the statements were taken, medicals...
01:05and...
01:06we have...
01:07further inquiries would be done on that matter.
01:08The police had only moments...
01:09The police had only moments...
01:10earlier...
01:11hailed the success of the school-oriented policing unit initiative...
01:14which...
01:15has been ruled out at 51 schools across the country.
01:18At present...
01:19there are...
01:20138 officers assigned to schools.
01:23Do the officers in the school...
01:25No...
01:26No...
01:27No...
01:28No...
01:29The officers in the schools...
01:30No...
01:30body cameras the whole idea of the body cameras is something that
01:35we constantly we are looking at but again at a later date
01:40when we adjust the situation with the body cameras we would ensure that
01:45is part and parcel of the tool of trade of all police officers
01:47are you able to say currently
01:50like what percentage of the force does have body cameras and actually utilize the body cameras
01:55police force generally well as you know that that was an ongoing situation
02:00even last year and it is one of those areas that
02:05we would be addressing this year so at this point in time I'm unable to see exactly
02:10how much of the the police service has but
02:15the cameras at this time the police report however that there has been a marked
02:20increase in school and discipline since the deployment of officers yet still
02:25three students have been arrested since the start of the initiative
02:28there has been
02:30there has been a total of 33 rs student rs
02:35that include possession of marijuana possession of a weapon sexual
02:39underscore
02:40conduct assault on a principal resisting arrest
02:44suspect
02:45dispension of a student suspended among the 63 rs students
02:57you
02:50thus far from September to January 20th, this today.
02:55The key observations, vaping is one of the most common...
03:00infraction across the school, indicating a growing trend.
03:05Among students, it requires some health intervention.
03:09Fights and distortion...
03:10for disorderly conduct remain prevalent, showing the need for conflict resolution workshops.
03:15And peer mediation programs.
03:17Meantime, the National Parent Teacher Association...
03:20says parents remain supportive of the initiative.
03:24We have been...
03:25pleased...
03:26with the outcome so far...
03:28what have been taking place with the...
03:30police.
03:31One of the recommendations that we have, because we are observing that...
03:35the school and discipline incidents and infractions are no...
03:40moving away from.
03:41Especially those schools where the police...
03:43um...
03:44presence.
03:45um...
03:46would be...
03:47moving away from the precincts of the school building...
03:50and are not being taken outside.
03:52So we are now requesting...
03:53we are now...
03:54um...
03:55appealing...
03:55to the CTPS to also have...
03:57um...
03:58static...
03:59and mobile patrols...
04:00in...
04:00around the school...
04:01especially...
04:02um...
04:03after...
04:04our schools...
04:05and afternoons...
04:06because we have had some incidents...
04:07cutting...
04:08TV6 News.
04:12In必死...
04:13In必死...
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04:16In sorts...
04:17in will...
04:18Inperación...
04:19It isy triste.
04:20Don't Senna conclu抽 a什么...
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04:22...todítico...
04:23In Literatura.
04:30In a difficulty.
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04:33If it is not a problem...
04:34What?
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