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Ofsted is to review its approach to knife crime in schools following an intervention from the mayor of London.

According to the Evening Standard, Khan described knife crime in the capital as an «epidemic», and said schools were afraid to tackle the problem in case it damaged their reputations.

As for Lewis one of biggest parts of the myth is that this lying chancer had the skill set to turn round knife crime in the capital.

However, after a wave of violent gun and knife crime in London, Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn united with London Mayor Sadiq Khan accused the Tories of «reckless failure» by cutting police numbers and slashing funds for local services.

Last month it emerged knife attacks in the city soared by more than a fifth in the past year as knife crime in London runs out of control.

Questions began with concerns being raised about the rate of knife crime in the UK, especially in London.

But despite such a recent tragedy, knife crime in Scotland has plummeted over the last decade and, given the recent spate of stabbings in London, it is understandable that police, politicians and healthcare professionals are now looking to Scotland for a solution to their problem.

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.

«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.»

Rev Isaac set up his street pastor team in 2003 as a response to gun and knife crime in Britain's urban areas.

Not exact matches

Business Insider met with Derrick Twum who grew up in New York in a gang environment and served 14 years in prison because of knife crime.

Justin, Sam and Claire also discuss the front cover feature on Christians fighting the knife crime epidemic in London, whether evangelicalism can survive the era of Trump and what to do when God doesn't heal.

They now also recognise the role of faith leaders in the fight against knife crime: asking them to join weapon sweeps of areas where gang members stash knives.

The officers were working as part of Operation Bobcat, which sees plain - clothes police tackle knife crime and robbery in Westminster.

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).

Knives are constantly used in convenience store robberies and other crimes.

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.

Assistant commissioner at the Metropolitan Police Martin Hewitt said: «My position would be that stop and search is an absolutely crucial tactic in dealing with particularly something like knife crime.

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

Christian charity Word 4 Weapons has singled out the role of Christians in tackling knife crime after four people were stabbed to death in unrelated attacks across London in the space of 24 hours.

«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.»

The voices of those affected by violent crime have a pivotal role to play in bringing safety to London and they repeatedly highlight the need to address the underlying social issues that lead people to carry knives in the first place.

Police officers in 12 high - crime areas will be told to prosecute anyone caught carrying a blade as part of a fresh clampdown on knife crime.

The full gun crime statistics for 2007 will be published at the end of the month and will include some of the 27 teenagers murdered by guns or knives in London last year.

A state law on what constitutes illegal folding knives, or so - called «gravity» knives, targets blacks and Hispanics with razor - sharp precision — though the «weapons» are rarely used in violent crimes, new statistics show.

Liddle: - The overwhelming majority of street crime, knife crime, gun crime, robbery and crimes of sexual violence in London is carried out by young men from the African - Caribbean community.

The rise in knife crime is a complex issue and the solutions are long - term and multi-faceted.

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!

Her remit may be broad, but it also covers some of the most important tasks facing this government, including dealing with the knife crime epidemic, tackling modern slavery — a cause championed by Theresa May during her own time at the Home Office and in Downing Street — and leading on the forthcoming Domestic Abuse Bill.

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

The Conservatives have drawn attention to knife crime as the year draws to an end, claiming the number of fatal stabbings reached a record high in 2008.

The then Strathclyde police force (now part of Police Scotland) launched a new strategy in response to the epidemic of 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.

And, having made campaign capital out of knife crime and promising a turnaround, the next stabbing somewhere in the streets of south London will be on his watch.

A decade ago Scotland, and Glasgow in particular, had a serious problem with knife crime.

The Home Office has been accused of «spinning» the story on tougher sentences for knife crime, in the wake of a number of high - profile attacks.

Knife crime in London has been rising for four years in a row and in 2016 the police recorded a 14 % increase in offences involving a knife or sharp instrument compared with the previous year, across England and Wales.

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

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.

Thousands are expected to march through London today to protest against knife and gun crime as it was also revealed only 10 of the capital's 74 MPs attended a debate tabled in the House of Commons on the issue on Thursday.

MPs are set to hold a special 90 - minute Commons debate on knife crime some time in the near future as the issue continues to dominate public concern.

Official figures have shown a fifth of violent crimes in England and Wales involved a knife in the last year.

He failed to make any specific mention of the 20 % rise in violent crime recorded by the police, including a 29 % increase in robbery, a 21 % rise in knife crime or 21 % rise in gun crime.

Mayor Boris has rightly made tackling knife crime a priority but there's only so much that stop and searches (27000 of them have been conducted in the last six weeks under Operation Blunt II), scanners and amnesties can do.

«Young people get caught up in knife crime and gangs in all manner of different ways,» she told politics.co.uk.

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«I would rather take criticism about that than have parents come to me in Catford, in Lewisham, when their children's lives have been utterly devastated by gangs and knife crime,» Ms Alexander added.

Following a spate of shootings and stabbings among young people in London, the home secretary launched a three stage initiative to reduce gun, knife and gang crime in February.

On knife crime, he added: «We have already announced that we are bringing in an automatic prison sentence for any adults who use a knife to threaten and endanger.