overwhelming majority of young people in the county do not”. Since then, Safer Gloucestershire and the Police and Crime Commissioner’s office have invested £60k in a post within public health to look in more depth into the root causes of violent crime. It is hoped this will lead to earlier intervention and prevention. DPCC Mr. Brierley, who is also chairman of Safer Gloucestershire, said: “The national news agenda has featured some truly dreadful incidents which give the impression that it’s mostly young people carrying knives – this is absolutely not the case in our county. During the last three months of 2018, only one young person came through to the youth justice service for possession of a knife. “We know there is much to do and are
Gloucestershire is a safe county • During the past three years, incidents defined as knife crime accounted for less than 1% of all crime in the county • The number of ‘knife crime’ incidents involving young people in Gloucestershire was in single figures • Crimestoppers’ 'Fearless from knife crime’ campaign has worked with 30 schools across Gloucestershire and engaged with around 4,000 secondary school students
to this, but the current analysis of the data we collect around types of offences or anti-social behaviour clearly tells us that there are very few young people who carry knives in Gloucestershire and that the
certainly not complacent, but there is evidence that progress is being made and that Gloucestershire is still one of the safest places in the country” l
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