Friday, May 04, 2007

Doctors help tackle knife crime / BBC News [London], 3 May 2007
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/6618887.stm
"Doctors at an east London hospital are to report details of stabbings to help police crackdown on knife crime."

Cutting edge policing / BBC Magazine, 4 May 2007
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/6619687.stm
Mukul Devichand
"The chilling violence involving guns and knives has dominated the headlines, yet many cases go unreported. In a new tactic, police rely on hospitals and schools to help monitor the hidden victims.
Recent stabbings of teenagers have shocked the nation and much attention has focused on London's black community. But it is police in Glasgow who face Britain's most stubborn problems with gangs and youth violence."