Asked by: Grahame Morris (Labour - Easington)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, on how many occasions stop and search powers have been used under a Serious Violence Reduction Order in each month since those powers were introduced; and if she will provide a breakdown of those figures by police force area.
Answered by Chris Philp - Minister of State (Home Office)
Serious Violence Reduction Orders (SVROs) are a new civil order being piloted in four police forces: Thames Valley, Merseyside, Sussex, and West Midlands. The orders provide the police the powers to stop and search convicted knife offenders.
These four forces have been selected as they have the required volume of knife crime or offensive weapons offenders per force as well as a wide range of demographics to test the impact and effectiveness of the orders. Piloting in these four forces also allows for the effectiveness of SVROs to be tested in both urban and semi-urban forces.
SVROs are being robustly evaluated by our independent evaluator, Ecorys. Following the conclusion of the pilot we will lay a report in Parliament on the operation of the pilot, which will include full details on the number of SVROs issued and the related stop and search and arrest data.
In addition, the Home Office has expanded its 2023/24 stop and search data collection to capture information on searches which have taken place under a Serious Violence Reduction Order. These data will be available at Police Force Area level and are likely to be published at the end of 2024.
Dec. 06 2007
Source Page: National Community Safety Plan 2008-11. 43 p.Found: (including those that are gang related); a reduction in gun and knife crime; a more effective
Mentions:
1: Yvette Cooper (Lab - Normanton, Pontefract and Castleford) Knife crime is up by 70%, devastating young lives. - Speech Link
2: Alison Thewliss (SNP - Glasgow Central) The work of the violence reduction unit in Scotland over many years has taken a preventive approach to - Speech Link
3: Chris Stephens (SNP - Glasgow South West) Friend the Member for Glasgow Central (Alison Thewliss) speak about the violence reduction unit work - Speech Link
4: Michael Shanks (Lab - Rutherglen and Hamilton West) Member for Glasgow Central (Alison Thewliss), such as the violence reduction unit, which I did a lot - Speech Link
Mar. 31 2008
Source Page: Citizens jury on crime: final report. 37 p.Found: Citizens jury on crime: final report. 37 p.
Mentions:
1: Nicola Richards (CON - West Bromwich East) What steps her Department is taking to reduce knife crime. - Speech Link
2: Louie French (CON - Old Bexley and Sidcup) What steps her Department is taking to reduce knife crime. - Speech Link
3: Chris Philp (CON - Croydon South) This Government are determined to fight knife crime. - Speech Link
4: Chris Philp (CON - Croydon South) We have violence reduction units designed to provide those activities. - Speech Link
Aug. 30 2023
Source Page: Government bans machetes and zombie knivesFound: Government bans machetes and zombie knives
Mentions:
1: Tobias Ellwood (Con - Bournemouth East) on record my thanks to the Chancellor, who in his Budget devoted funds to Bournemouth for a police violence - Speech Link
2: Jeremy Hunt (Con - South West Surrey) Friend is absolutely right: violence reduction units reduce crime and save lives. - Speech Link
Correspondence Mar. 08 2024
Committee: Welsh Affairs Committee (Department: Wales Office)Found: Correspondence between the Chair and the Police and Crime Commissioner for South Wales HC 100 Correspondence
Mentions:
1: None We are taking a longer-term view of youth violence and looking at the reduction that has occurred in - Speech Link
2: Ewing, Fergus (SNP - Inverness and Nairn) Reduction Unit and Medics Against Violence, along with diversionary activity that was funded by the - Speech Link
3: None That is what we had at the point when violence reduction really occurred in the early 2000s. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Philip Davies (Con - Shipley) Will he confirm that knife crime would not be included and make sure that that is clear in the legislation - Speech Link
2: Priti Patel (Con - Witham) we have brought in violence reduction units, which take targeted action in towns across the country - Speech Link
3: Gareth Bacon (Con - Orpington) Having heard the points raised by several Members about knife crime, I will look closely at that issue.Our - Speech Link