Knife Crime

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The body representing rank-and-file police officers has called for stronger stop and search powers to tackle youth knife crime after new figures showed more than 140 young people were caught carrying blades in the past year. Police Scotland found knives during 145 searches involving young people bet

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Legal journalist John Forsyth learns about the realities of rehabilitating convicted knife criminals on a visit to the Scottish Violence Reduction Unit in the latest episode of BBC Radio 4's From Our Home Correspondent. Many experts regard the scheme in Glasgow as a model for other UK cities - notab

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