{"id":66280,"date":"2025-05-22T13:43:07","date_gmt":"2025-05-22T13:43:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/?p=66280"},"modified":"2025-05-22T13:43:08","modified_gmt":"2025-05-22T13:43:08","slug":"south-yorkshire-police-start-action-week-for-tackling-knife-crime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/index.php\/2025\/05\/22\/south-yorkshire-police-start-action-week-for-tackling-knife-crime\/","title":{"rendered":"South Yorkshire Police start &#8216;Action Week&#8217; for tackling knife crime"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Action tackling knife crime across South Yorkshire has started on the 19<sup>th<\/sup> May.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The week long plan has been called \u2018Spectre\u2019 and encourages officers to \u2018detect, prevent and reduce knife crime within our local communities\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Spectre aims to increase community engagement, deliver educational materials on the danger of carrying knives, and reflect how impactful knife crime is on victims, perpetrators, families and communities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Detective Superintendent David Cowley, who is the force lead for knife crime, said: &#8220;Throughout the year, our officers work hard to keep communities safe from knife crime, so this week is business as usual for us.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;We are all too familiar with the heartbreaking aftermath of knife crime and it remains a priority for our force.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Amnesty Bins, mostly operated by charity Always An Alternative,&nbsp;have been installed in various locations around the city, including on: Handley Street, Stradbroke Drive, Birley Moor Road and Devonshire Green on Division Street.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jack, who works at a shop on Division Street called Balance, said how \u2018something\u2019 needs to be done.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He said: \u201cAt least it is someone trying to do something about getting the knives off the streets. It is a big thing happening at the moment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cYou hear about it in London, but it\u2019s shocking that it happened so close.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jack was referencing the recent tragic incident that happened in Sheffield, where a teenager, Harvey Willgoose, was stabbed and died at school.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Throughout this week, local schools and youth groups will see visits from neighbourhood policing team&nbsp;officers delivering sessions around knife crime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jack also added: \u201cAlthough, they need to get to the cause of it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"807\" height=\"603\" src=\"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/top-of-bin.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-66291\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/top-of-bin.png 807w, https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/top-of-bin-480x359.png 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) 807px, 100vw\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>South Yorkshire\u2019s Mayor, Oliver Coppard said:<strong> \u201c<\/strong>We\u2019ve seen all too recently what knife crime does to our community; how young people in particular are at risk of ruining not just their own lives but the lives of others too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s why I\u2019ve made it a priority through my work as Mayor, and why we need a zero-tolerance approach when knife crime does happen anywhere in South Yorkshire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWeeks of action like Sceptre are important because they make that promise a reality; helping to take knives off the streets, but also putting early intervention and education at the heart of our approach.\u201d &nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To dispose safely of a knife in an Amnesty Bin, visit the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.southyorkshire.police.uk\/\"> South Yorkshire Police<\/a> website to find the locations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week is \u2018action tackling knife crime\u2019 week where police will show ways they are preventing knife crime in various community areas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":685,"featured_media":66288,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[415,27,16],"tags":[57,15,38,266,131],"class_list":["post-66280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","category-crime","category-top-stories","tag-crime","tag-news","tag-sheffield","tag-sheffieldcitycouncil","tag-south-yorkshire"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>South Yorkshire Police start &#039;Action Week&#039; 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