What do activists think of the new plans of the Messer Crime of Nottinghamshire of the police?

A new strategy to combat knife crime in Nottingham has been revealed when summer is approaching. And while the plans only aim to keep the city center securely, community leaders and activists have warned against razor crime that the measures are required throughout the district.

The multi-agency plans were created to make the number of knife wearers and at the same time to offer education and calming. The plans also examine the connections between knife crime and drug supply, rough sleep and begging.

High visibility and simple strips of clothing, stop-and-scan seekers and knife sheets (scanner) are just a few of the measures that will be used in the city center in the coming months. Marked police cars will also be present in areas such as Old Market Square, Clumber Street and St. Mary's Place.

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Dr. Marcellus Baz Bem, founder and boss of Switch Up, a youth organization that is supposed to secure young people of crime and violence, explained that, although he found the initiative, he could lead to knife crime elsewhere in the city. He said: “It is encouraging to see that the police's plans are implemented by Nottinghamshire to prevent young people from wearing knives in the city center.

“Initiatives like this are crucial to work, work, work, work or feel safe to the public, and it is clear that the police work hard to combat the problem directly. However, I am concerned that this focus on the city center can unintentionally suppress the problem into the surrounding local community.

“When we push the problem out of an area without removing the basic causes, we risk that it will reappear elsewhere.”

The new plans will follow an increase in the patrols carried out in recent months after a number of knife incidents in the city center in the city center were carried out in March.

Dr. BAZ said: “The police have recently done excellent work to do arrests and remove weapons from our streets, but we also have to take into account the broader context. Over -populated prisons often cause perpetrators to be in prison or be left in the community without being able to lead to proper rehabilitation or support, which can lead to a cycle of renewal.

“In order to break this cycle, we have to deal with the underlying reasons why young people primarily wear knives – fear, trauma, poverty, exploitation and lack of opportunity. As the saying says, knives do not kill people.

“If we want to change really in the long term, we have to merge for the violent drivers through sectors, police, local authorities, community leaders and basic organizations such as Switch Up.”

This was repeated by Zoe Cooke, who lost her 22-year-old son Byron in July 2021 He was stabbed by four men, all in the 20s .

She said: “Education is the key and children must be taught about the dangers of wearing a knife from a much younger age.” Ms. Cooke explained how her 14-year-old daughter recently told her how two of her colleagues wear knives, even though she seemed to be “beautiful boys”.

She explained: “I was shocked when she told me that a boy who went to her school was wearing a knife because he looked like a boy like a boy.

“What would look like a wealthy boy actually poses like a gangster with knives. This showed that every child can wear knives in any area.”

She added: “The police say that they aim at the small number of people who wear knives, but it's not a small number, not among young people. Children tell me more of their friends than not.

“Many of them do it out of fear. Many children who wear knives do not have the intention of using them. But if they are brought into a position in which their lives are in danger, they will use them.”

Ms. Cooke warned that the measures should be constantly present and added that knife sheets should be installed in places such as the inputs of the Victoria Center and the PUB doors. She also explained that more foot patrols are needed in areas outside the city center.

The patrols of the Nottinghamshire Police razor criminal offenses have carried out 37 arrests, 133 stop search processes, 46 drug attacks and 28 weapon attacks since March. The officials also create plans to contact CCTV operators as precisely as possible and to better use the extensive cameras of the city center.

The chief inspector Karl Thomas, the crime of the armed forces, said: “Our message to knife carriers that bring weapons into the city remains clear. They are arrested and we will do everything in our power to put them in court or to ban them from the city center.

“However, we also know that it is crucial that people continue to feel safe when they work in the city center and visit them – and that is what these plans ultimately want to achieve.”

He added that the officials of simple clothing will be present to recognize the expression of measures such as knife bows. He said: “We hope that this series will calm the public through this series that only improve the police work of the city center.

“Long -term measures to combat knife crime and the associated problems will also improve, including criminal behavioral regulations, to prohibit criminals from the city center.”

Cllr Corall Jenkins, Executive member of the city council of Nottingham for neighborhoods, waste and equality, added: “It is fundamental to feel safe in your city – whether you live here, work here or just visit.

“Like many other places in Great Britain, Nottingham has seen the effects of knife crime on individuals, families and communities, and we take it incredibly seriously. By combining the enforcement with commitment and support in the community, we deal with the immediate concerns while we set the basics for long -term, permanent changes.”