Sir Keir Starmer will hold a national summit on knife crime every year to hold law enforcement and technology companies to ...

The spate of attacks have raised the question of how knife crime rates have risen so much in recent years. London appears to have a higher amount of knife crime compared to some parts of the country.

As Labour and the Conservatives get into election mode, their pledges and ideas to tackle knife crime are under increasing scrutiny. There is some debate over whether recent knife crime statistics ...

The West Midlands Police area has again recorded the highest rate of knife crime offences in England and Wales, according to the latest figures. The Office for National Statistics (ONS ...

Armed robberies are helping to fuel an increase in knife crime across England and Wales ... Aside from robberies, the Office for National Statistics data showed that the number of threats to ...

The Garda analysis service is compiling overall statistics related to knife crime, the first such report since 2021. Mr O’Callaghan told Mr Tóibín that this will “provide further insight on ...

The number of offences involving a knife or sharp instrument increased ... by “organised criminality”, but noted overall crime rates were down 20 per cent since 2019. Graham Wynn, assistant ...

The ban is part of efforts to reduce knife crime, with campaigners including actor Idris Elba pushing for the large blades to be outlawed. The Government plans to also ban ninja swords in the future.