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Ask the police: Are Knife Crime Prevention Orders the solution to knife crime?

SUBSCRIBE 11th February 2019Penelope Gibbs, Director, Transform Justice
Knife crime has reached its highest recorded level in eight years prompting the Government to propose a new Knife Crime Prevention Order to help solve the problem, but, in this exclusive article for Policing Insight, Director of Transform Justice Penelope Gibbs asks whether the evidence base exists to support the introduction of KCPOs.

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