Po­lice are in­ves­ti­gat­ing acts of van­dal­ism at the Cara­pichaima West Sec­ondary School dur­ing the Re­pub­lic Day hol­i­day on Wednes­day night.

An es­tate con­sta­ble with the Na­tion­al Main­te­nance Train­ing and Se­cu­ri­ty Com­pa­ny Lim­it­ed (MTS) was on du­ty at the school around 11:00 p.m. when he re­port­ed­ly heard nois­es com­ing from the north­ern side of the com­pound. Af­ter check­ing the area, he found noth­ing un­usu­al.

When he re­turned to his se­cu­ri­ty booth, how­ev­er, he dis­cov­ered that 16 pages from an MTS desk di­ary had been torn out and de­faced with pen mark­ings.

Ad­di­tion­al pa­pers were al­so scat­tered across the booth.

Else­where on the com­pound, three garbage bins were over­turned and their con­tents strewn near the ad­min­is­tra­tive of­fices.

Sev­er­al class­room doors had been forced open, with a num­ber of hasp and sta­ple latch­es bro­ken. De­spite the dam­age, no items ap­peared to have been stolen.

Of­fi­cers PC Tull, PC Ali, and Phillip from the Freeport Po­lice Sta­tion re­spond­ed to the scene and con­duct­ed in­quiries, in­clud­ing can­vass­ing for CCTV footage to as­sist in the in­ves­ti­ga­tion.

PC Tull is lead­ing the in­ves­ti­ga­tion.