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Armed robberies help to increase an increase in knife crime in England and Wales, as the latest figures show.

The number of crimes of razor crime reached a high after the Koviden in 2024, when 54,587 police officers were recorded. This number was 2 percent higher than 2023, but in the pre-Kovid year that ended in March 2020, a little under 55,170.

One factor for the increase was the increase in the robberies recorded by the police in which a knife or a sharp instrument was involved, which rose by 5 percent in 2024 to 11:304 p.m. The crimes include the knife theft of mobile phones and armed robberies in shops.

From Monday, the awareness of national razor crime will be raised as police forces, councilors and campaign groups come together to tell stories about the effects of razor crime and to celebrate the success in the fight against them.

Last year, the Interior Minister Yvette Cooper set a goal of half the number of knife violations in a decade. In March, she announced new measures so that retailers report suspicious sales to the police and increased the prison sentence for the sale of weapons to children.

However, the latest crime figures show the enormous task, with almost a third of all robberies in which a knife is now involved.

At the beginning of this year, a man and a woman were imprisoned for more than six years after they were guilty of the shop in Lowestoft. Misha Goddard (30) and Connor Furlow, 29, swept a knife out of a waistband before fled with a cash register.

In Stoke-on-Trent, Dylan Hurd (19) and Callum Talbot (23) were on a moped when they pulled a knife to a driver and took his car. The couple guilty of the robbery. Talbot was detained for six years and Hurd for four o'clock.

In addition to robberies, the office for national statistics data also showed that the number of threats with which criminal offenses were involved with knives also rose slightly to change 3 percent to 5,979 – although murders decreased by 16 percent in 2024 to 216.

The number of criminal offenses of the knife rose by 1 percent to 28,150, which is also higher than the pre-Pandemic number of 23.264 in 2019/20.

Last year there were a number of top -class knife attacks in schools.

A 14-year-old was sentenced to 15 years in prison last month after stabbing two teachers and students at the Ammanford School in Carmarthenshire last April last April. Two months earlier, a 15-year-old stabbed a student to death in a school in Sheffield.

The attacks initiated Anne Longfield, chair of the independent commission on young lives, the situation with which the schools have a “national emergency”.

Criminal offenses of razor crime in their police area

The figures showed that the Metropolitan Police, the largest force in the country, last year, 16,789, recorded the highest number of criminal crimes – which was 16 percent compared to 2023.

The police from West Midlands followed with 4,664, a decrease of 12 percent compared to the previous year and Greater Manchester with 3,452, 6 percent.

In a report published last month, the MET Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley warned that the hope of halving knife crime in London will “be impossible without significant financing”.

He said the forces' labor plan had shown that he would lose 1,500 civil servants by the end of this financial year.

Messer criminal crime awareness week

The campaign, which runs from Monday to Sunday, takes place in the third year and is operated by Axon and Ben Kinsella Trust. The trust has been set up Eastenders Star Brooke Kinsella after her brother finished his GCses 16 years ago.

This year there is a reception in the parliament, which is sponsored by MP Margaret Mullane, a member of the selection committee for interior matters. It will lead to the victim organizations showing the work they do, and at the same time giving the opportunity to fight further changes.

Elsewhere, schools and groups will hold events across the country. In Bristol, more than 100 school shirts with news from children about knife crime are exhibited at an urban exhibition.

Dr. Jade Lvell, senior lecturer for social and public policy at the University of Bristol, who led the project, said: “The answer was mostly positive, and the participants took the opportunity to really express themselves freely and creatively with their feelings.”

Patrick Green, Managing Director of Ben Kinsella Trust, added: “The sensitization of knife crime is an opportunity for everyone who can understand the devastating effects that can have razor crime on individuals and communities and what is even more important to stop them,” said Patrick Green, Managing Director of Ben Kinsella Trust.