Toolbar Business and Enterprise College is believed to be the first school in the country to check pupils for weapons. It is 11 miles from the school where 14-year-old Luke Walmsley was stabbed to death in November 2003.
Principal David Hampson said the detectors were only used if teachers suspected a pupil and not for random screening. If a pupil refused to be scanned, their parents would be asked to remove them from school.
The detectors are also used for catching children with mobile phones, which are banned on school premises.
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