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Speaking as forces across the country marked the
national Op Sceptre anti-knife campaign, Supt Phil Staynings said they could not “police their way out of the problem”. He said Wiltshire Police had put a renewed focus on early intervention schemes aimed at diverting youngsters away from carrying knives, with officers working directly with teachers through a new police and schools panel and programmes supporting families of children known to be at risk of falling into crime. But Supt Staynings also confirmed that the force’s knife carrier’s index – a log of those suspected or confirmed to routinely carry knives – had 25 names on it.
BURIED deep in the Adver’s picture archive there is a yellow-and-black box. Written on the box’s spine in black and red felt tip are three words: CRIME: LETHAL WEAPONS. Inside it is picture after picture of coppers holding everything from rocket launchers and assault rifles to murder weapons. Many of the images were taken by Adver photographers at weapon amnesties decades apart. Police officers in faded uniforms look out from among a sea of guns or knives.
The box in the Adver s picture archive
‘This survived Dunkirk with me’ In 1988, almost 900 weapons were handed in during a month-long amnesty.
BURIED deep in the Adver’s picture archive there is a yellow-and-black Kodak box. Written on the box’s spine in black and red felt tip are three words: CRIME: LETHAL WEAPONS. Inside it is picture after picture of coppers holding everything from rocket launchers and assault rifles to murder weapons. Many of the images were taken by Adver photographers at weapon amnesties decades apart. Police officers in faded uniforms look out from among a sea of guns or knives.
The box in the Adver s picture archive
‘This survived Dunkirk with me’ In 1988, almost 900 weapons were handed in during a month-long amnesty.