Tip-Offs Are Helping Police Crack Down On Knife Crime

Communities are helping police turn the tide on knife crime by tipping off authorities about those carrying deadly weapons, senior officers revealed yesterday.

- Michael Knowles

Parents are also being told to speak to their children about the issue, with chiefs admitting “you may hear some upsetting and concerning things about what your child is involved in”.

Nationally, knife crime has fallen by one per cent. But in London, it is down by 17 per cent.

Stabbings involving those under 25 have fallen by a quarter in the capital, chiefs revealed.

Officers across the country are this week targeting known knife carriers, setting up knife detectors in town and city centers to take more blades off the streets, and hunting for weapons hidden in parks and neighbourhoods.

Dangerous

Border Force will also seize illegal knives being imported into the UK.

Chiefs say the crackdown – dubbed Operation Sceptre – “builds on the work we do with partners like Border Force and Trading Standards to stop the flow of illegal and dangerous knives that end up in the hands of our young people”.