Images via Met Police Taskforce show mounted police patrols in Croydon and a knife seized by officers there on Saturday. Police have sent mounted police to patrol the streets of Croydon and conducted Stop and Searches across South London in recent days after a wave of stabbings south of the River Thames. Officers mounted on police horses were pictured riding down London Road near West Croydon station on Saturday evening (February 6), where just hours earlier a 24-year-old man had been found with stab injuries. That incident was the latest in a wave of stabbings in South London that also witnessed a man in his 20s stabbed in Couldson on Saturday.
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image captionSven Badzak was chased by a group of males in Kilburn before being stabbed, the Met Police said
A 22-year-old man killed in a double stabbing outside a Tesco store in Kilburn, north-west London, has been named by police as Sven Badzak.
Detectives said Mr Badzak was chased by a group of males and was attacked after falling on Willesden Lane.
Mr Badzak s 16-year-old friend was also stabbed in the attack and remains critically ill in hospital, the Met Police said.
Ch Insp Guy Ellwood described the attack as barbaric .
Officers were called to Willesden Lane at 17:40 GMT on Saturday where they found Mr Badzak injured.
Police said they would focus the operation on West Croydon. Image: Dominic Lipinski/PA wire The Metropolitan Police have launched a new initiative dubbed Operation Cleveland in a bid to tackle violent crime in Croydon after a spate of stabbings in the area. In an open letter sent out to Croydon residents and published online, Met Superintendent Andy Brittain said that the new operation, whilst planned prior to the attacks witnessed in the borough on Friday and Saturday, would aim to tackle the violence and anti-social behaviour seen on the streets in recent days. As the Croydon Guardian reported previously, police presence in Croydon increased after the stabbings, with several Section 60 Orders giving officers heightened powers to stop and search people in the area.
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image captionSven Badzak was chased by a group of males in Kilburn before being stabbed, the Met Police said
A 22-year-old man killed in a double stabbing outside a Tesco store in Kilburn, north-west London, has been named by police as Sven Badzak.
Detectives said Mr Badzak was chased by a group of males and was attacked after falling on Willesden Lane.
Mr Badzak s 16-year-old friend was also stabbed in the attack and remains critically ill in hospital, the Met Police said.
Ch Insp Guy Ellwood described the attack as barbaric .
Officers were called to Willesden Lane at 17:40 GMT on Saturday where they found Mr Badzak injured.