Bid to slash knife crime (From The Westmorland Gazette)

Bid to slash knife crime

10:03am Tuesday 14th August 2001

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ARMED teenagers are being targeted by Bromley police as part of a new crackdown to get knives off the streets.

The borough's bobbies will use tactics such as stop and search and a clampdown on shops selling knives to under 16s in a bid to cut knife crime.

Bromley is one of the Metropolitan Police's divisions taking part in the London-wide initiative.

The Safer Street Campaign comes in the wake of three stabbings which sparked terror in the town centre last month.

A 17-year-old boy was rushed to hospital and treated for multiple stab wounds after being attacked on the High Street. And in February three men received stab wounds after a fight erupted outside a Beckenham nightclub.

A police spokesman said: “We are totally supportive of the Metropolitan Police campaign.

“We are very concerned about the growing usage of knives and have a number of initiatives in the pipeline aimed at tackling knife crime.

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