COPS' WAR ON KNIFE KILLINGS.A HUGE crackdown on teenage knife crime is being launched following the wave of fatal stabbings.Police will step up stop-and-search and metal detecting knife arches will be put in Tube and rail stations with a history of trouble. All 32 London boroughs will have special units of five officers and a sergeant. Met Police Commissioner Sir Ian Blair Sir Ian Warwick Blair, QPM (born 19 March 1953) is Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police (head of the Metropolitan Police Service). He is not related to Tony Blair, the former British Prime Minister, despite sharing a surname. revealed the plans yesterday. He said the "situation where 15 teenagers have been murdered since January" had created a "completely unacceptable" climate of fear. A boy of 15 was being questioned by police last night over the killing of Martin Hinnegan, 14, in Holloway, North London North London is a part of London, England which has several possible definitions. River & geography The part of London north of the River Thames (illustrated). . |
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