Sentences with phrase «reducing knife crime»

The tests were carried out as part of the Metropolitan Police's Operation Sceptre initiative, aimed at reducing knife crime.

[25] King's first campaign speech, at Haverstock school, focused on «engagement with young people» as a way of reducing knife crime and helping them achieve their potential.

«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.»

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

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

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We will continue to ensure that serious and dangerous offenders are managed effectively and their risk is reduced through appropriate use of prison and then through the multi-agency public protection arrangements... Any adult who commits a crime using a knife can expect to be sent to prison, and serious offenders can expect a long sentence.

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.

The courts will do what they can to help reduce, and, so far as practicable, eradicate it... it is important for public confidence in the criminal justice system that the man or woman caught in possession of a knife or offensive weapon without reasonable excuse should normally be brought before the courts and prosecuted... whatever other considerations may arise in the individual case, sentencing courts must have in the forefront of their thinking that the sentences for this type of offence should focus on the reduction of crime, including its reduction by deterrence, and the protection of the public.