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 2023/24. Source Evening Standard. The rate over the 8 years, 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. You may inform Crimestoppers anonymously or call local police101

The ban on zombie-style knives in the UK came into effect on September 24, 2024,, 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.