School placed on lockdown following ’threatening phone call’

25 September 2024 , 14:18

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School placed on lockdown following ’threatening phone call’

Police have scrambled to respond to a school in lockdown after the academy received a ‘threatening phone call’.

Co-op Academy in Bebington, Wirral, was put into lockdown on today after someone called to make threats around 11.10am, Merseyside Police confirmed.

The school issued a statement to parents and carers which said: ‘The school is in lockdown as we have had a threatening phone call. Police are on their way.

‘DO NOT COME TO THE SCHOOL. We will keep you updated. Everyone is safe.’

Officers attended the school and all staff and children are safe and well, police said.

Police will remain at the school this afternoon to provide reassurance and inquiries are ongoing into the incident.

Merseyside Police said in a statement: ‘We can confirm that we are investigating an incident of malicious communications reported by Co-op Academy Bebington this morning, Wednesday 25 September. At around 11.10am, we received a report that someone had called the school and made threats.

‘Officers attended the school and all staff and children are safe and well. Officers will remain at the school this afternoon to provide reassurance and inquiries are ongoing into the incident.’

Thomas Brown