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Retailers who sell knives to under 18s could be fined £1m

(04/04/23) The Sentencing Council has confirmed that two new guidelines relating to the sale of knives to under 18s came into force on April 1.

Homicide rates increase and are back up to pre-pandemic levels

(09/02/23) The Office for National Statistics has today published its annual statistics on homicides in England and Wales which covers the period up to the end of March 2022.

SVROs: a new weapon in the fight against knife crime

(06/02/23) Merseyside is one of a few forces who will pilot new orders designed to put persistent knife crime offenders on the back foot.

(14/11/22) Young people's experiences of violence (17/10/22) Home Office confirms PACE revisions required for SVROs pilot

Focused deterrence scheme sees sharp reduction in repeat victims

(12/10/22) Officers knocked on doors of people associated with knife and gun crime to offer them diversion options.

(18/08/22) Essex use new mobile weapons detectors for street ops (15/06/22) GMP rolls out virtual reality programme to tackle youth violence (26/05/22) Forces urged to share data on machete finds for new laws (06/04/22) Offensive Weapons Act bans online sale and delivery to under 18s (06/04/22) Offensive Weapons Act bans online sale and delivery to under 18s (16/03/22) Force develops new technique for detecting blood on dark clothing (17/12/21) Town centre teams made up of 500 officers to tackle public safety (24/11/21) How do we solve knife crime? (15/10/21) Online Safety Bill will help curb gang violence, says Met lead (12/10/21) Gangs using social media from prison 'undermines' justice system (11/10/21) Met's 'overreliance' on stop search reason for high levels of knife crime (04/10/21) Knife crime: messaging can backfire, warns force lead (17/09/21) Hotspot policing is rolled out to 18 more forces with funding (17/09/21) Hotspot policing is rolled out to 18 more forces with funding (05/08/21) Ten-year low in lethal barrelled firearms discharges in London (20/07/21) Number of stop searches by Met almost halved in a year (14/07/21) Sweeping knife and gun laws to target violent offenders (07/07/21) Knife prevention orders start in capital as two teenagers killed (17/06/21) Londoners must "break wall of silence" on knife crime, pleads Met (10/06/21) New knife crime toolkit (03/06/21) Officers responding to stabbing have objects thrown at them by crowd (02/06/21) Media narrative on stop search "damaging to community relations" (02/06/21) Media narrative on stop search "damaging to community relations" (01/06/21) What is the serious violence duty?

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Tag: KNIFE CRIME

Retailers who sell knives to under 18s could be fined £1m

Homicide rates increase and are back up to pre-pandemic levels

SVROs: a new weapon in the fight against knife crime

Focused deterrence scheme sees sharp reduction in repeat victims

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