IT is not often that the Jamaican police conduct searches and stumble upon one pleasant surprise after another.

But this was the case when the police confiscated several bottles of colognes from patrons entering the National Stadium to cheer on the nation’s finest student athletes as they pitted their skills against each other during the first three days of the ISSA/GraceKennedy Boys’ and Girls’ Athletic Championships.

Instead of the usual knives, ice-picks, marijuana and other contraband usually seized from patrons, the police were kept busy confiscating colognes, bottles and umbrellas — all items which they said could potentially be used as weapons.

“It seem as if the people coming here are getting the message about the type of things that are not allowed,” an inspector, who asked not to be named, told the Sunday Observer at the stadium yesterday afternoon.

The inspector said that the persons from whom the objects were confiscated were given the option of disposing of the items or securing them elsewhere before being allowed entry into the stadium.

And the news gets even better.

The inspector said there had been no reported incidents of violence over the first three days.

Up to press time yesterday, the final day of the competition, officers at the Constabulary Communication Network (CCN), said there had been no reported incidents of violence or arrests at the games.

In the meanwhile, a 16-year-old student was on Friday night stabbed along Trafalgar Road in New Kingston and was admitted at the Kingston Public Hospital. There have been speculations that the incident was related to the continuing student rivalry that follows the annual championships, but the police was unable to confirm a motive as no official report had been filed up to yesterday.