An online petition calling for tougher knife crime sentences was debated in Parliament after it received 106,884 signatures, with almost 10,000 signatures coming from the North East. The petition requested that people who are found with a knife are sentenced to 10 years and those found using a knife receive […]
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Knife crime decreases in North-East despite UK record high
The number of knife crimes in the Northumbria Police force area has almost halved over the last year. Recorded incidents dropped from 421 in 2016/17 to 288 in 2017/18. Figures released by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) showed that while knife crime in the North East has decreased, across […]