Sentences with phrase «rising knife crime»

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

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.

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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).

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.

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

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.

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.

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 %.

Public perceptions of the rising tide of knife crime and youth gang violence in London have reached such a pitch that Boris needs to be equally clear, ruthless and relentless in his fight against crime in London.

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

The rates of violent crime in UK are on the rise, with knife crime rising by 20 %, gun crime rising by 21 % and London's murder rate ove... Read more