Mentions:
1: Marsha De Cordova (Lab - Battersea) Nationally, serious violence is up by 60% since 2015, with knife crime, gun crime and robbery all increasing - Speech Link
2: Tom Pursglove (Con - Corby) crime.The Offensive Weapons Act 2019 introduced knife crime preventions orders, which are court orders - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: None [Relevant Documents: e-petition 634860, Make knife crime prevention a compulsory requirement for all - Speech Link
2: Wendy Morton (Con - Aldridge-Brownhills) I absolutely recognise the work that they do.A petition to make knife crime prevention a compulsory requirement - Speech Link
3: Dan Jarvis (Lab - Barnsley Central) Knife crime rates remain stubbornly high. - Speech Link
4: Michael Tomlinson (Con - Mid Dorset and North Poole) Let me touch on serious violence reduction orders. - Speech Link
Asked by: Taiwo Owatemi (Labour - Coventry North West)
Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to help prevent children being (a) exploited, (b) recruited into criminal organisations and (c) involved in knife crime in the West Midlands.
Answered by Chris Philp - Minister of State (Home Office)
This Government is determined to crack down on knife crime and the criminal gangs who are exploiting our children and have a devastating impact on our communities.
That is why we are investing in a number of programmes to respond to child exploitation including the Prevention Programme, delivered by The Children’s Society, who work with partners across sectors to tackle and prevent a range of exploitation types.
In addition, we are investing up to £145m over three years in our County Lines Programme which provides funding for targeted operational activity in the four largest exporting force areas including West Midlands Police. We are also investing in dedicated specialist support provided by Catch-22 to help those who are criminally exploited through county lines to safely reduce and exit their involvement. Since the County Lines Programme was launched in 2019, police activity has resulted in over 4,700 lines closed, over 14,800 arrests and over 7,200 safeguarding referrals.
The Government is also committed to ensuring that the police have the tools and powers they need to tackle the scourge of knife crime on our streets. We are currently piloting Serious Violence Reduction Orders in the West Midlands which give the police more powers to stop and search convicted knife offenders. We also plan to legislate on banning zombie-style machetes and knives that have no practical use, more powers for police to seize knives that could be used in crimes, and a new offence and higher sentencing to those who sell and possess these dangerous weapons.
Since 2019, West Midlands Police have received over £20m of funding for a Violence Reduction Unit (VRU) (including £4.38m this year) and £19m (including £3.4m this year) for the Grip programme. Collectively, these programmes are providing a multi-agency preventative response designed to tackle the drivers of violence, alongside additional, high visibility patrols and problem-solving tactics in the areas worst affected.
Mentions:
1: Yvette Cooper (Lab - Normanton, Pontefract and Castleford) The Home Secretary did not have the figures to hand on knife crime, but knife crime is up by 70%, and - Speech Link
2: Priti Patel (Con - Witham) , and serious crime prevention orders, which are dealt with in clauses 34 and 37. - Speech Link
3: Alex Cunningham (Lab - Stockton North) She is right that aggressive rough sleepers need support, and that issuing prevention orders does nothing - Speech Link
Laid - 17 May 2024 In Force 14 Jun 2024
The Sentencing Act 2020, as amended by the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act 2022, makes provision for special procedures to apply to community orders and suspended sentence orders in certain cases.
Found: Sentencing Act 2020 (Special Procedures for Community and Suspended Sentence Orders) Regulations 2024
Found: General Debate on knife crime
Jul. 15 2008
Source Page: Youth crime action plan 2008. 81 p.Found: Youth crime action plan 2008. 81 p.
Feb. 18 2008
Source Page: Saving Lives. Reducing Harm. Protecting the Public. An Action Plan for Tackling Violence 2008-11. 63 p.Found: gun and gang-related crime; knife crime; and sexual and domestic violence.
Mentions:
1: Alex Norris (LAB - Nottingham North) That is the principal problem: by the time the courts get involved, making orders divesting people of - Speech Link
2: Alex Norris (LAB - Nottingham North) One involves restraint orders. - Speech Link
3: Laura Farris (Con - Newbury) a knife to another room is not taking it to the scene. - Speech Link
Nov. 14 2023
Source Page: New bill gives police more powers to take zero-tolerance approach to crimeFound: New bill gives police more powers to take zero-tolerance approach to crime