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I believe additional funding has only happened in the last couple of months:
What is the government doing to tackle violent crime? - Home Office in the media
And this was the additional funding:
Extra £100m pledged to tackle knife crime
If you read here:
Jeremy Corbyn and Sadiq Khan hold meetings on violent crime
Speaking after the City Hall summit, the home secretary (Amber Rudd) said it was "a very useful meeting" but would not be drawn on whether she accepts concerns about lack of resources.
It implies that even though the home secretary was at the meeting, there was no commitment on funding!
Info on what has been done so far:
Tackling serious violent crime
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Tackling serious violent crime
Every death as a result of violent crime is an utter tragedy - leaving lives destroyed and families heartbroken.
The level of violent crime in London is clearly unacceptably high and Mayor Sadiq Khan is determined to lead from the front to tackle the problem - with a relentless focus on both arresting violent offenders and tackling root causes.
Here’s what the Mayor is doing:
Boosting police power
The Mayor has funded a new dedicated Violent Crime Taskforce of nearly 300 police officers focusing on the areas worst affected and is providing £15 million annually to support its operationSince the VCTF was launched in April 2018 up until the end of May 2019, the command has carried out 8,452 weapons sweeps, recovered 910 knives, 651 offensive weapons, 299 firearms and arrested 4,937 suspectsBetween April 2018 up until the end of May 2019, wider activity across the MPS targeting violence has seen 47,527 weapon sweeps carried out, 3,230 knives recovered along with 1,501 offensive weapons and 769 firearmsThe Met Police has introduced patrols using targeted stop and search for areas worst-affected by knife crime. Preventing future violence
A Violence Reduction Unit has been established. This brings the police together with specialists from health, local government, probation and community organisations to tackle violent crime and the underlying causes of violent crime. The Unit is learning from counterparts in Glasgow, where a public health approach was successfully implemented over several years and led to a fall in violence.The Mayor has created the £45 million Young Londoners Fund to provide young people with positive alternatives to crime and to help Londoners to get out of gangs and violence and into employment and training. The second round of applications for the Young Londoners Fund opens in May 2019Our Stepping Stones programme, supporting at-risk young people in their transition from primary to secondary school, has been expanded to 15 schools, helping 2,100 vulnerable young LondonersThe widely shared London Needs You Alive campaign, viewed over 4 million times, brings together role models and youth influencers to send a positive message to young people - that they shouldn’t put their lives at risk by carrying a knife. The campaign recently expanded to engage community groups, faith groups and schools with a new educational toolkitThe Mayor’s granted £7 million to projects to combat youth violence across London and £250,000 to community groups and grassroots initiativesThe Mayor is working to bring in more Safer Schools Officers to help to drive down knife crime in schoolsThe Mayor is investing £1.4 million to continue to provide youth workers in Major Trauma Centres, and place more youth workers in hospital A&E departments, to help steer young Londoners who have been involved in knife crime away from violence in the futureWe are working with the MPS, Trading Standards and retailers to stop knives getting into the hands of underage Londoners. We are supporting and promoting the National Business Crime Centre’s Top Ten Tips for preventing the underage sale and theft of knives to all London retailersKnife wands are now available for every school in London to help keep young people safe, with 200 schools so far taking up the offerThe Deputy Mayor held a Business Community Safety Summit in April, bringing together a wide range of businesses, security professionals and community representatives to explore good practice in relation to preventing and responding to serious incidents of violence within business premises and within that looked at how to support the principles for safe havens and safeguarding. The Summit will share good practice through the development of an online toolkit that can support businesses and havens to prepare for and reduce the risk of a serious incident of violence occurring, respond in the period immediately after an incident of serious violence occurs and support employees, customers and wider community to recover from such an incident in the longer-termTackling gang violence
The Mayor is investing £2 million in London Gang Exit services to support young people at risk of or engaged in serious violence and help them into employment, education or training City Hall works with the police, charities and councils on two programmes aimed at ending and preventing gang violence and exploitation, working with victims and young people at risk.-----------------
The figures are very worrying in terms of how many weapons are being removed already. |
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Author: Cliff
26-11-2019 00:26:30