{"id":7050,"date":"2019-02-02T20:17:33","date_gmt":"2019-02-02T20:17:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/knife-crime-suspects-could-be-banned-from-social-media\/"},"modified":"2019-02-02T20:17:33","modified_gmt":"2019-02-02T20:17:33","slug":"knife-crime-suspects-could-be-banned-from-social-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/knife-crime-suspects-could-be-banned-from-social-media\/","title":{"rendered":"Knife crime: Suspects could be banned from social media"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div property=\"articleBody\">\n<figure class=\"media-with-caption\">\n<div class=\"player-with-placeholder\">\n            <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"media-placeholder player-with-placeholder__image lead-video-placeholder\" src=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/images\/ic\/720x405\/p06zk8ms.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Media playback is unsupported on your device<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div><figcaption class=\"media-with-caption__caption\"><span class=\"off-screen\">Media caption<\/span>Sajid Javid says the Asbo-style orders would give police more powers to prevent knife crime<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"story-body__introduction\">New powers to control suspects thought to be carrying knives are being introduced by the government in a bid to cut rising violence.<\/p>\n<p>Knife Crime Prevention Orders would impose sanctions, including bans on using social media to stir up trouble.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>Critics said the orders risked criminalising young people.<\/p>\n<p>The possession of knives has increased by almost a third in five years, figures released earlier this month showed.<\/p>\n<p>It is already a crime to carry a blade in public without good reason &#8211; and there is a separate offence of taking a knife into a school.<\/p>\n<p>The House of Lords is being asked to approve the proposed prevention orders as part of the government&#8217;s Offensive Weapons Bills.<\/p>\n<p>If a court is convinced the police&#8217;s intelligence is probably right, it can impose sanctions including: <\/p>\n<ul class=\"story-body__unordered-list\">\n<li class=\"story-body__list-item\">Curfews to keep the suspect off the streets and out of specific areas where gangs clash<\/li>\n<li class=\"story-body__list-item\">Requirements to attend special knife awareness courses to change their thinking<\/li>\n<li class=\"story-body__list-item\">Barring the suspect from using social media to encourage feuds <\/li>\n<li class=\"story-body__list-item\">Banning them for up to two years from meeting other members of their gang<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>Breaching an order would be a criminal offence punishable with up to two years in prison.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"media-with-caption\">\n<div class=\"player-with-placeholder\">\n            <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"media-placeholder player-with-placeholder__image narrative-video-placeholder\" src=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/images\/ic\/720x405\/p06zbnjy.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Media playback is unsupported on your device<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div><figcaption class=\"media-with-caption__caption\"><span class=\"off-screen\">Media caption<\/span>Investigation reveals knives sold illegally to children<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Labour MP Sarah Jones, chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Knife Crime, said the plan was &#8220;flawed&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Imprisoning a young person &#8211; as young as 12 years old &#8211; for two years for breaching this order is completely disproportionate,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"media-landscape no-caption full-width\"><span class=\"image-and-copyright-container\"><\/p>\n<p>            <\/span><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>The new powers come as it emerged a fifth of offences for possession or threatening with a knife in the year to June involved 10 to 17-year-olds. <\/p>\n<p>Hospital figures reveal that 813 people under 18 were treated for a sharp injury wound in the year to April 2018 &#8211; up 80% since March 2015. <\/p>\n<p>The Crime Survey for England and Wales &#8211; a national rolling study of people&#8217;s experiences &#8211; found that almost 6% of children knew someone who has carried a knife.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"media-with-caption\">\n<div class=\"player-with-placeholder\">\n            <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"media-placeholder player-with-placeholder__image narrative-video-placeholder\" src=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/images\/ic\/720x405\/p06yst63.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Media playback is unsupported on your device<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div><figcaption class=\"media-with-caption__caption\"><span class=\"off-screen\">Media caption<\/span>Knife crime: What happened to Michael?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Home Secretary Sajid Javid said the proposed power filled a gap in the law and would help police target knife-carriers more effectively. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I will do everything in my power to tackle the senseless violence that is traumatising communities and claiming too many young lives,&#8221; 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