Those knives as well as machetes will be outlawed with new legislation. The rise of knife crime has been apocalyptic. The rise comprises of 20% during the last year. Source Evening Standard. The rate over the 8 years since Sadiq Khan took over the Mayor of London position, knife crime has risen by 40%. (source Neil Garratt AM)

According The Times knife crime has fallen overall by 5% since the Covid pandemic.

Whilst knife bins have been installed in Tower Hamlets. It is still voluntary for knife carriers to deposit their deadly weapons in those bins.

Sometimes in weapon sweeps police find them and that saves lives.

See locations for knife bins in Tower Hamlets here.

1. Barnet Grove, north of the Bethnal Green Road junction
2. Vallance Road opposite Underwood Road
3. Burslem Street between the recycling bins
4. Brownfield Street next to number 107
5. St Mary’s and St Michael Church in Lukin Street ¹

Other bins location here (Word 4 Weapons website currently in development.

Yet, the danger is so imminent that government now strictly enforces a ban on those knives altogether. Source

We strongly encourage you to notify police if you know of any person carrying a knife. This includes school children who may have one on them when going to school. We accept anonymous reports about this on our reporting page.

Under the measures, first announced by the Prime Minister last year and laid before Parliament today, it will be illegal to possess, sell, manufacture or transport these zombie-style knives and machetes.

The government is urging anyone with one of these dangerous weapons to voluntarily hand it into a knife surrender bin, before the official surrender and compensation scheme is launched in the summer. This will get these knives off our streets as soon as possible, while giving people in possession an opportunity to hand them in without legal implications. The full ban will come into in force in September, after which anyone in possession of one of these knives will face time behind bars.

During this time, the government will work with police, communities and partners to ensure there is public awareness of the surrender scheme, which have been implemented in the past to accompany knife bans.

This is just one part of a package of measures being introduced by the government to strengthen existing knife crime laws, which are already among the toughest in the world. It is illegal to carry any knife in public without good purpose, carrying a sentence of 4 years in prison, and, in 2016, the government banned zombie knives, whilst cyclone knives were banned in 2019.

Since 2019, police have taken 120,000 knives off our streets through stop and search and other targeted police action. Knife crime has gone down 5% since 2019 and hospital admissions for under 25s involved in stabbings has fallen by 25%. Violent crime is also down 51% since 2010.