Knife Crime survey following Sceptre Week

Dear Resident

A week of action was carried out as part of the national Sceptre knife crime campaign between 19-25 May. 

During the week activities focussed on raising awareness of knife crime and the risks associated with carrying a weapon. Enhanced enforcement activity also took place with weapons detection operations, stop searches and visits to known knife carriers and offenders on probation, to ensure they were not in possession of weapons. 

The week mainly focussed on education and more than 15 schools and colleges received visits and presentations across the County. The Constabulary’s Child Criminal Exploitation Prevention and Diversion team also ran sessions with interactive games using VR headsets to simulate situations involving knife and gang crime. 

Visits were made to retailers around Hertfordshire to ensure knives are not being sold to those under 18 and to give advice on safely displaying bladed items. All retailers tested carried out the required age checks.

A knife amnesty also ran during the week, where 76 items were surrendered in our knife bins.

To follow up the Sceptre campaign we are inviting members to complete the Sceptre Survey to gather our Community's thoughts and feelings about knife crime.  We will use this information to help shape future plans and operations in Stevenage.
 

To complete the survey please use this link:

Please click here to complete the survey

Thank you