Sentences with phrase «knife crime there»

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.

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«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.»

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.

There's also a lot of problems with gangs and knife crime, including recent stabbings — the kind of social problems which are unusual for Tory - held seats.

It's not that there has been a recent crime spree — this isn't about a rise in acid attacks or knife crime.