Gang Area Knife Crime Drops ; Police Are Happy the Multi-Agency Team Is Having a Positive Effect

Derby Evening Telegraph › November 04, 2009

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A SENIOR police officer has revealed that knife crime in areas of Derby affected by gangs has reduced by 50%.

Offences involving knives in Sinfin, Osmaston, Alvaston and Boulton fell from 38 between April and September 2008 to 19 for the same period this year.

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Gang Area Knife Crime Drops ; Police Are Happy the Multi-Agency Team Is Having a Positive Effect

Chief Insp Sunita Gamblin said the reduction was partly down to the work of a specialist unit which was devised to ...

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