Footballers join battle against knife crime / Independent, 19 August 2008

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/2500-arrested-in-crackdown-on-knives-901854.html
"Police have searched 55,000 people for knives in a three-month crackdown on stabbings, the Home Secretary said yesterday during a press conference with England footballers. Jacqui Smith, speaking after two more teenagers died of knife wounds at the weekend, said more than 2,500 people were arrested and 1,600 knives seized."