Police probe theft of laptops from Point Fortin Secondary

SASCHA WIL­SON

Se­nior Re­porter

Po­lice are in­ves­ti­gat­ing the theft of gov­ern­ment-owned lap­tops from the Point Fortin West Sec­ondary School.

The theft was re­port­ed by a teacher at the school.

The po­lice were told that around on Oc­to­ber 15, 19 stu­dents in the Tech­ni­cal Draw­ing class were is­sued with lap­tops pro­vid­ed by the gov­ern­ment to use in the class.

The fol­low­ing day, how­ev­er, the teacher was in­formed by an­oth­er staff mem­ber that two of the Leno­vo lap­tops were miss­ing. She was al­so told that an On-the-Job trainee as­signed the lap­tops un­der her name in­stead of reg­is­ter­ing each de­vice to the in­di­vid­ual stu­dent us­ing it.

As a re­sult, the prop­er pro­ce­dures for is­su­ing and re­turn­ing the lap­tops were not fol­lowed, leav­ing no record of which stu­dents had used the two miss­ing de­vices.

Po­lice were fur­ther in­formed that two stu­dents were sus­pect­ed of steal­ing the lap­tops. How­ev­er, in­ter­views with fac­ul­ty mem­bers and stu­dents re­port­ed­ly yield­ed no in­for­ma­tion to as­sist the in­ves­ti­ga­tion.

Point Fortin po­lice are in­ves­ti­gat­ing.