Boy, 15, arrested after school forced into lockdown after student 'behaving aggressively and threatening staff'

By Flaminia Luck

A boy has been arrested and a school has been placed into lockdown after a student was found to have been "behaving aggressively and threatening staff".

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Derbyshire Police said: "We received a report of a student behaving aggressively and threatening staff at Queen Elizabeth’s Grammar School in Green Road, Ashbourne, just after 10:25am today.

“The school instigated their lockdown procedure and contacted police.

“Officers attended and a 15-year-old boy was arrested for assaulting a police officer.

“The school are currently in the process of coming out of their lockdown procedure.

“Enquiries into the incident are ongoing.”