Knife campaign at city schools

Bid to raise awareness about danger of blades

- Sentinel Reporter

POLICE are taking a knife arch into Stoke-on-Trent schools - to try to raise awareness of the dangers of carrying blades.

Birches Head Academy is the latest secondary school to take part in the Staffordshire Police operation.

It saw pupils walk through the knife arch at the start of the school day. No blades were seized.

It comes as one parent has complained to The Sentinel about the use of the knife arch. He labelled the operation a 'joke!