News for the community, by the community.
Youth Unity were on South Street in Romford working with our youths and do fantastic outreach work across Havering and London wide. They are a non profit organisation that are dedicated to supporting vulnerable young people and adults affected by issues such as gang violence, drug abuse and exploitation.
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For those of you enquiring who tackles knife crime-then look at frontline officers, schools officers, bereaved parents, and anti knife crime campaigners. As for the rest-no one is interested, and so it will remain.
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Three mothers who lost their children to knife crime have spoken to the Havering Daily about the pain and sadness they have felt watching the horrific events unfold in Southport this week.
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For years, parents and anti knife crime campaigners have called upon those in authority to step in and help them stop the battle against knife crime. They ignored all the pleas and we now have a knife crime epidemic on our streets where youths are openly and proudly brandishing their weapons on our streets for all to see.
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Two men were stabbed yesterday afternoon on North Hill Drive in Harold Hill. Both were taken to hospital where one has since been discharged and the other remains in a non life threatening condition.
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The Metropolitan Police reported an assault in Cottons Park, Romford, where a woman sustained a facial injury. The incident occurred on July 19th, and the woman has been hospitalized with non-life-threatening injuries. No arrests have been made yet, and the police investigation is ongoing, with a forensic team collecting evidence.
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A man has been taken to hospital after being stabbed on Briar Road, just after 2pm today..
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On Friday 12 July, Beam Park and Rainham police officers began a foot chase after a suspect. In the process of the chase, the suspect discarded a machete.
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Three people have been arrested for suspicion of affray, possession of offensive weapon and grievous bodily harm.
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I support stop and search. I also support longer jail sentences for those found carrying knives on our
streets. It’s time to stop the stabbings in our community. As the MP for Dagenham and Rainham, I
will personally champion this in Parliament until we get the tough approach and longer jail terms, we
need for those using knives.
Our young people need to feel heard. Often, when these issues are discussed, they are the last people to be consulted about how we can tackle the issues they face on the streets and in their daily lives.
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We must never take our eye off the ball when it comes to protecting people from knife crime, particularly our young people when they go out.
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If I am elected to Parliament I will be adding my support to the crack down on the availability of machetes and zombie-style knives and want to see tougher sanctions on those found to be carrying these weapons.
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Under Sadiq Khan’s watch, knife crime continues to skyrocket across ‘Greater London’ year by year, and our communities in Havering are paying the price.
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Rather than continually dealing with the effects of knife crime the factors such as
financial deprivation, socio-economic background, early childhood and adolescent experiences of violence, drug addiction and low educational attainment have to be addressed.
This is part of the wider issue of policing and crime in general, not one specific crime. The last 30 years has seen a complete breakdown in law and order. First off, it must be recognised that police presence is a deterrent to crime whilst CCTV on the most part, just records crime.
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Bereaved parents have been begging and pleading for help to stop knife crime. Nobody has listened and here we are, with two 12 year old children found guilty of killing a 19 year old.
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Officers first pursued the suspect who was on a moped, then arrested him after a period of struggle where the male chose to pull out the machete on officers.
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West Ham Football Club have joined forces with local bereaved mum Sue Hedges and installed three Daniel Baird bleed kits in all three of their training grounds.
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London’s communities are tired of watching children die on the street. Tired of watching children carry knives to protect themselves. We have to listen to our youth, stand in their shoes and understand what is going on in their lives.
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