The Durham police start a new campaign for crime against knitting knives

The Durham police start a new campaign to combat knife crime in the region with a clear message: “An injury, death, is one too many.”

The force has announced a “senseless” campaign for months to remove weapons from the streets of County Durham, which coincided with the arrival of the knife angel in Newton Aycliffe next month.

While the region has one of the lowest rates of knife crime in the country, there are still devastating memories of the effects of knife crime in the region.

And the police would like to take a permanent attitude on this topic with the news: “Wearing a knife in our communities is pointless”.

The campaign will collapse with 'Scepter', a national weapon Amnesty Week, and focus on three strong realities of wearing a knife.

This includes:

• A senseless risk – wearing a knife makes you more victims.

• To wear senseless – there is no justification for wearing a weapon.

• Senseless decisions – a bad decision can destroy life, which leads to serious injuries, deaths or prisons.

The Durham police will also have a one -month amnesty that enables people to give up knives or weapons at proven police stations in the county of Durham and Darlington.

All handles handed over are also donated to the British Ironworks Center, the creators of the knife angel.

At the beginning of this year, the government started a number of strict criminal regulations against knitting that the retailers forced to report mass or suspicious sales and to enable knife buyers when selling and delivery as part of a “strict two-stage system”.

Like many other areas of Great Britain, the northeast continues to feel the devastating effects of razor crime – with Connor Brown, Chris Cave, Gordon Gault, Tomasz Olezak and Jack Woodley only a handful of those who have lost their lives in the region.

The northern echo continues to work with victims of knife crime through its Taskforce Messer Crime, which was started in 2023.

Newton Aycliffe Neighborhood Sergeant Andy Boyd said: “We know that razor crime lives. Even in an area with a relatively low razor crime in which you live, we cannot afford to ignore it.

“An injury, death, is one too many. Therefore, we are working hard to change the settings for the wearing of knives before it is too late.

“In order to combat the razor crime in our district, we carried out educational programs in schools for students from the 6th to 11th grade and helped them to understand the real dangers of a knife and the devastating effects on families and communities.

“In June, the Knife Angel arrives in County Durham for the first time. It is a strong national symbol of violence, and we are determined to use it to bring our message home that wearing a knife is senseless.”

Anyone who has caught a knife with a knife for no valid reason can have up to four years in prison-a life-changing punishment for a decision that could be avoided.

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Members of the public can safely hand in knives on the front leaves of the following police stations: Durham City, Bishop Auckland, Peterlee and Darlington.

For safety reasons, all objects must be safely wrapped before transport and sealed in a bag or box. Knife must never be worn openly or in a way that could cause alarm.

If you are worried that someone you know a knife are not silent. Talk to the police, a family member, a teacher or report it anonymously at Crimestopper.