Getting this message home to young people is absolutely crucial in the short and long term to help us prevent some of the tragic examples of youth-related knife offending we have witnessed over the past 12 months."Īlthough the number of offences are now lower, there is still work to be done to get knives off the streets. "NPT colleagues have also visited 38 schools to educate young people about the potentially lethal dangers of carrying knives. "Proactive patrols, arrest operations and other activity in May's Operation Sceptre week saw officers make over 50 arrests and carry out sweeps of public areas for discarded and hidden blades, with some dangerous weapons recovered. He said: "High-profile individual offences do very understandably cause public concern, but the overall trends show knife crime is coming down and the national Operation Sceptre weeks continue to be a great opportunity for us to focus a spotlight on this issue. Knife behind the cordon (Image: Robert Sutcliffe) West Yorkshire Police Chief Inspector James Kitchen told YorkshireLive a "huge" amount of work by the force has gone into reducing knife crime and added: "We are seeing that reflected in our figures." This means there were 102 fewer victims of overall knife crime and 73 fewer victims under the age of 25. This is a 6 per cent increase of the previous year's figure of 2,270 - though a much larger increase from the 1,412 knife offences recorded in the year ending March 2011.īut in the year 2022 to 2023, despite recent high-profile cases, knife offences were actually 4 per cent lower overall than in 2021-2022, and 8 per cent down in cases involving under 25s. They must stand as poster boys for how knife crime destroys lives.Īccording to the Office for National Statistics (ONS), West Yorkshire recorded 2,395 serious offences involving a knife or sharp instrument in the year ending June 2022 - more than any other Yorkshire police force. The judge in the jailing of Harriott and Pusey made special note of the Examiner and YorkshireLive's campaign as she made the rare decision to lift automatic reporting restrictions which granted the teenage murderers anonymity. I have lost my son and I would not wish this on anyone else."īin the knife, save a life: We want everyone to unite in the war against knife crime This violence has to stop and carrying weapons has to stop. In May, as her son's killers - 15-year-old as Jakele Pusey and 17-year-old Jovani Harriott - were sentenced, Khayri's mum said: "I ask myself what has this achieved? What has my son died for? I have lost my child and other parents have lost their two children who did this. We stand together and demand knife crime to be combatted once and for all.
Read more: The 23 Yorkshire men all women should avoid from killers to disgraced police officer Tragically, since then, too many others have been killed, injured, and locked up for other knife-crime related cases in Huddersfield and West Yorkshire. 'Loved' Khayri Mclean, 15, and 'bubbly' Harley Brown, 17, both lost their lives after being stabbed. The campaign was launched following the tragic deaths of two teenagers due to knife crime in just six months of each other.
Six months ago, Huddersfield and wider West Yorkshire demanded "enough is enough" after countless lives were snatched away and destroyed at the hands of people carrying knives.Īuthorities backed the Examiner and YorkshireLive's anti-knife crime campaign - Bin the Knife, Save a Life - and vowed to help get the weapons off our streets.
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