Sentences with phrase «knife crime»

But he said he believed that stop and search powers had contributed to a successful reduction in knife crime in the capital, which has dropped 13 % in the last year.

Of course if we are going to get tough on knife crime we will need extra prison places and not be afraid to use them.

Metal detectors will be installed at secondary schools most at risk of knife crime, the government is set to announce.

The prime minister has laid out his plans for tackling knife crime in his monthly press conference.

The charity is partnering with trainers who have experience with knife crime as role models for youths.

A Christian young people's charity is to hold a landmark event with the aim of reducing knife crime.

But since targeting the spike in gun crime, it has been cut by 13 % in a year, and we have to do the same with knife crime.

But section 60 is a key tool in the police's fight against knife crime.

Children attending the programmes will expand their social skills and emotional understanding by addressing issues like knife crime and gang culture.

A proper public health approach would treat knife crime like an epidemic.

We can't hope to solve today's knife crime crisis solely by «cracking down».

We need to treat knife crime very seriously by letting judges choose the sentence to fit the crime.

Look at knife crime through the eyes of the victims their relatives and also experts.

Today they paint him as being less than honest on knife crime.

But a Christian weapons charity has suggested they need to put their money where their mouth is to tackle knife crime.

It features a life - size prison cell and actors who show some of the consequences of knife crime.

An additional # 220,000 will be provided to 100 hospitals by the end of the year to share the anonymous data, in a bid to improve intelligence about knife crime across the country.

Scotland has reduced knife crime by treating violence as a public health and social problem, says Joanna Cherry

However, tackling rising knife crime, fighting to justify policing cuts and handling the ongoing terrorism threat are all key issues.

Christian charity Word 4 Weapons has singled out the role of Christians in tackling knife crime after... More

The coalition tussle over mandatory sentences for knife crime held the hallmark of parties upping the ante, in their pursuit of a captive audience.

The leader of a Christian organisation which helps people turn away from knife crime has told Premier... More

We need a long - term, multi-agency approach to knife crime which seeks to understand and prevent its underlying causes, says Sarah Jones

The surge in knife crime across England has prompted Sadiq Khan to back the use of «targeted» stop and search powers in London.

Gordon Brown has responded to growing public concern over knife crime by lowering the minimum age teenagers can be prosecuted for carrying knives from 18 to 16.

At the moment, Khan is working closely with Ofsted and headteachers to make it mandatory for schools to develop effective measures to help prevent knife crime and support students and parents in the event of an incident.

He suggested that this is not the common sense policing that people want when London faces a real potential terror threat and serious knife crime problem on the streets.

Mayor of London Boris Johnson has announced # 700,000 funding for a series of projects aimed at reducing gun and knife crime today.

«Education on knife crime at this age should be on the curriculum.

This might explain why knife crime throughout England and Wales is soaring.

The reference to gang signs in Stormzy's album title comes at a time when gang - related crime is on the rise in the UK (recent figures show knife crime increased in the UK by 14 per cent between 2015 and 2016).

A meeting between prominent church leaders will be taking place on Thursday night to address what the Church can do to help combat knife crime.

Les Isaac, CEO of Ascension Trust and co-founder of Street Pastors - which works to make communities safer - told Premier the Church should prioritise knife crime.

The head of a crime reduction charity has welcomed the government's proposed crackdown on online knife sales after UK police forces registered a rise in knife crime last year.

«We should engage with those who are victims and offenders we should work with the statutory authorities that are working to try and deter knife crime in our communities.»

«There is no one else in the United Kingdom putting secure weapons bins on the streets to reduce knife crime other than us and the Home Office have consistently turned down police forces when they have applied for funding to help us put knife bins in areas around the country, so it's a bit of double standards.»

Home secretary Jacqui Smith has launched a new crackdown on selling knives to young people, but warned there was «not one easy quick way» to tackle the problem to solving knife crime.

Whilst it seems clear that ramping up stop and search is an ineffective tactic, it is important to note that the link between knife crime and stop and search has been hugely overstated.

Gordon Brown has called on the police to adopt zero tolerance towards knife crime after concerns were raised officers were letting offenders off with a caution.

Children's secretary Ed Balls added: «Schools are one of the places that young people feel the safest and fortunately knife crime inside schools is incredibly rare.

When 60 % of stops and searches in London are looking for drugs (mostly low level possession offences) and only 10 % for knives, the suggestion that it is a vital tool employed to target knife crime is disingenuous.

The wave of reported knife crime that has dominated London newspapers this summer has now got Conservative mayoral candidate Zac Goldsmith behind calls to increase the use of stop and search.

«This announcement will make sure schools remain the safe haven they have always been, preventing young people from being drawn into knife crime outside the school gate.»

Defenders point to a disproportionate number of knife crime offences in some areas involving young black men.

Before joining The Conversation UK, Jo Adetunji worked as a reporter and editor at the Guardian, covering stories from UK knife crime to the Arab Spring.

A Labour minister — a high ranking official of the same party who only a few months ago, over ruled the ONS to release a work of fiction regarding knife crime — is implying that the ONS is politically motivated in its releases is rich to say the least!

To tackle knife crime there must be a mandatory sentence not just for over-18s, but for anyone who brandishes a knife as a threat.

«People say knife crime is more important.

Like Cath, I was horrified to hear of this incident, which, in the complete moral void it illustrated, was in a way more alarming than the rising knife crime statistics.

Sadly, the debate about knife crime remains full of hand wringing about moral decay, and not enough focus on the social conditions which underpin it.