Sentences with phrase «knife crime last»

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.

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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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Official statistics released last week showed that across England and Wales knife crime rose by a fifth last year, while robberies rose by 33 % and burglaries by 9 %.

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.

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