Knife crime: Suspects could be banned from social media

[♥ Lily ♥]

Knife crime: Suspects could be banned from social media

31/01/19

New powers to control suspects thought to be carrying knives are being introduced by the government in a bid to cut rising violence.

Knife Crime Prevention Orders would impose sanctions, including bans on using social media to stir up trouble.

Orders would target anyone in England and Wales aged 12 or over suspected of knife crime involvement, even if they are not caught with a blade.

Critics said the orders risked criminalising young people.

The possession of knives has increased by almost a third in five years, figures released earlier this month showed.

It is already a crime to carry a blade in public without good reason - and there is a separate offence of taking a knife into a school.

The House of Lords is being asked to approve the proposed prevention orders as part of the government's Offensive Weapons Bills.

If a court is convinced the police's intelligence is probably right, it can impose sanctions including:

• Curfews to keep the suspect off the streets and out of specific areas where gangs clash
  
  
• Requirements to attend special knife awareness courses to change their thinking
  
  
• Barring the suspect from using social media to encourage feuds
  
  
• Banning them for up to two years from meeting other members of their gang

The prevention orders can also be imposed on someone convicted of carrying a knife, in an attempt to prevent them returning to their old ways.

Breaching an order would be a criminal offence punishable with up to two years in prison.

Read more: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-47064453

[El_Abominacion]

Finally some action being taken!

[♥ Lily ♥]

I think people who are currently found to be carrying a knife or acid on them during police 'stop & searches' of suspicious people in the street, can receive up to a 5 year sentence in jail. It's illegal to carry knives and related items in public places.

Most security guards check and scan peoples bags and pockets before they can enter large venues, museums, galleries, major tourist attractions, etc, for bombs, knives, acid, etc ... and they make people dispose of any bottles of water or liquids before they can enter places. They can buy drinks inside the premises rather than bring their own liquids into venues.

The U.K. government plans to make the jail sentences for knife and acid possession longer. https://www.theguardian.com/law/2018...cid-possession

It's also illegal for shop-owners to sell knives to underage people with no proof of I.D. Undercover police have shown the media videos where they sent teenagers into stores in secretly video-recorded tests to see if they could purchase knives... and the store owners who sold them to underage people were publicly shamed and prosecuted afterwards.

[Dacul]

I do not like the idea of banning them from using social networks, that can be something that they use to communicate with other people not only for evil purposes.