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Cops urge teens to txt on knife pals; CRIME.


TEENAGERS in Scotland are being encouraged to inform on knife-carrying friends by sending text messages to police.

The new service, which was launched in Aberdeen yesterday, was set up to tackle the country's knife crime problem.

Crimestoppers, which guarantees anonymity, is urging youngsters to send text information about anyone they suspect is carrying a blade to a hotline number - 88551.

Spokesman Michelle Herd herd

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 said: "We do not trace text messages or your mobile number so no one will ever know you passed on information."

A similar text scheme run by police in London saw the volume of knife crime information treble treble, highest part in choral music, thus corresponding in pitch to soprano, but associated with the voice of a boy or a girl. The term appeared in 15th-century English polyphony, probably as an anglicization of the Latin triplum, .
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Publication:The Mirror (London, England)
Geographic Code:4EUUK
Date:Oct 7, 2009
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