Ministers are sharing national mapping technology with police to help them target streets and places where knife crime occurs. It has announced £26 million will be ploughed into a Knife Crime Concentrations Fund, which will support police to boost operations in knife crime hot spots identified by the mapping technology. The funding will be allocated to the 27 police forces in England and Wales that deal with 90% of knife crime. “This Government will halve knife crime within a decade, saving lives and protecting communities.”The mapping system will help officers pinpoint knife crime hot spots down to 100 square metres, and the times it is most likely to occur. The crackdown comes as part of a wider programme aimed at halving knife crime over a decade.

Source: The Times April 07, 2026 17:13 UTC