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.

The boy was or­dered to be placed in cus­tody at the Youth Train­ing and Re­ha­bil­i­ta­tion Cen­tre, Gold­en Grove, Arou­ca. He is the sec­ond mi­nor to be held us­ing a PDO fol­low­ing the de­ten­tion of 16-year-old Jay­lon George of Tu­na­puna in March.

El Do­ra­do res­i­dent Nisha Seep­er­sad was al­so iden­ti­fied as a mem­ber of an in­for­mal crime group which was in­volved in rob­bery and ex­tor­tion in the PDOs. The no­tice claimed Seep­er­sad and oth­ers pre­tend­ed to be se­nior of­fi­cers in the TTPS to threat­en or de­mand mon­ey from vic­tims.

“The de­tainee and oth­ers in­tend to es­ca­late these ac­tiv­i­ties and tar­get pri­vate cit­i­zens and po­lice of­fi­cers us­ing vi­o­lent and un­law­ful means with a view to harm­ing mem­bers of the pub­lic to con­tin­ue and/or am­pli­fy their harm­ful ac­tiv­i­ties,” the no­tice re­port­ed.

She has been or­dered to be re­mand­ed to the Gold­en Grove Women’s Prison.

Oth­er PDOs were is­sued for Ak­il “Spar­ta” Teles­ford and Jamyl De Gazon, who were iden­ti­fied as al­leged gang lead­ers from En­ter­prise, Ch­agua­nas and El So­cor­ro.

Teles­ford was de­scribed as be­ing the leader of a gang on To­ba­go Road, while De Gazon was de­scribed as the leader of the Sev­en gang in Barataria. Both men have been or­dered to be tak­en in­to cus­tody at the East­er Cor­rec­tion­al Re­ha­bil­i­ta­tion Cen­tre, San­ta Rosa.

Al­so list­ed among the batch were St Joseph res­i­dents Kester “Six” Dol­ly and Kevon Ka­mal­loo “Kel” Reed, who were de­scribed as be­ing part of a gang in­volved in home in­va­sions, rob­beries and thefts where el­der­ly peo­ple were specif­i­cal­ly tar­get­ed.