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Extra £5m to tackle knife crime
Date published: 12/03/2009
GREATER Manchester Police has been promised extra cash in the on-going fight against knife crime.
Home Secretary Jacqui Smith announced £5 million will be shared across the 12 so-called knife-crime hotspots, which include Greater Manchester.
Ms Smith said: “We all need to stand shoulder to shoulder to get knives off our streets and protect young people from knife crime.
“In the past 10 months we have stepped up action to tackle knife crime. Across the targeted areas, police have conducted more than 150,000 stop and searches and seized 3,000 knives since June.
“Nationally, we have provided 1,150 extra search arches and wands to help forces to take knives off the streets and reassure the public.”
The other targeted areas in the scheme are London, Essex, Lancashire, Merseyside, the West Midlands, West Yorkshire, Nottinghamshire, South Wales, Thames Valley and newly added Kent and Hampshire.
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ten years ago the laws where changed making it more of an offence to carrying knifes!
so why has it got worse? because they dont back the laws up with the right punishments!
Knives are not the problem! People are the problem! Social attitudes and discipline have gone down the drain, now we have a Lawless society that thrives on misery and choas.
Work to change personal, family and society attitudes as well HIGH SENTENCES for offenders will help, bu not cure the problem.
By wazzarsa @ 12/03/2009 12:30:25
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