Tackling Knife Crime Now Overtakes
Terrorism In The United Kingdom
Posted By Babandi Gumel
July 14, 2008
The formation of a 75-man strong team by the Police in London
has made the tackling of knife crime overtakes terrorism as
priority for the first time after the stabbing of seven people
four out which all are in London alone.
The British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has promised to tackle
knife crime after more shocking and tragic stabbings mainly in
the Capital. Adnan Patel a youngster in our area Leyton was
among the latest victim of knife crime.
The Police are questioning four people after the 20-year Hafiz
of Quran was stabbed.
In a desperate attempt to flee the attack the Late Adnan sped
off in his car but lost control due to injuries sustained in his
stomach and collapsed while reciting last prayer apparently
Shahadah an Islamic testimony of faith on the way to hospital on
Thursday evening.
On my way to work on Friday the following morning only two
hundred yards from my house the police cordoned the road named
South Birkbeck Road near the flats where the men who apparently
stabbed Late Adnan were arrested.
Adnan was so popular and so many people in our Mosque were
reminding me of him implying that I knew him as well as he was
regular in the neighbouring Mosque.
The Late Hafiz used to lead the Prayer of Salatut Tarawih in the
Mosque in Stratford during the Month of Ramadan that is why he
could not be forgotten making him popular among those who attend
the Mosque the talk of the town.
In the nearby Walthamstow another youngster in his 20th was
fatally stabbed and later died in Hospital on the same evening.
A man and a woman were also arrested after a 19-year old died in
Edmonton North London the twentieth teenager to die in the
capital this year alone.
In the nearby Tottenham a man in his 40s died of head injuries
after having found to have been slashed with a knife behind a
disused public on the High Street. Violence in the Capital has
become an international issue after the frenzied stabbing of two
French students a week before in an incident described by the
police as one of the grisliest cases they had seen.
The two French were stabbed more than 200 times before they were
burnt. A second man is being charged for the murder of the two
French post graduate students.
So no wonder tackling knife crime has overtaken terrorism as
number one priority with the setting up of 75-strong team to
target those carrying weapons according to the police.
Although a Police spokesman refused to describe the latest crime
as epidemic yet the six week campaign launched by the London
Metropolitan police in which over 500 knives were seized in
proactive operations to get knives off the streets of London as
growing knife culture among children and young people is causing
great concern with the latest stabbing raising an already
alarming death toll.
Over 27,000 have been searched and more than 1,200 people have
been arrested so far. The Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir
Ian Blair Acknowledged that the recent spate of stabbings
graphically illustrates the “need for everyone to pull together”
to put an end to what he described as this “unacceptable
violence”.
Despite all these the Police have assured the public that London
is still safe place for a City of its size with 162 murders last
year in May compared with New York with 496 murders and as many
as 2,262 in 1990 before the crime fell in that City.
For the first time another crime overtakes terrorism since the
world wide war on terror was launched after the September 11
attack in New York in 2001 and was strengthened here in London
after the 7/7 attack in 2005 which left more than 50 dead.
With the spiral wave of knife stabbings especially here in
London the police like ever y person in the Capital are very
much concerned as to how to tackle this violent knife culture
which is becoming endemic.
Therefore tackling this crime is the top priority which should
be given urgent attention interestingly overtaking terrorism for
the first time with the formation of the 75-man strong team to
tackle this menace of unfortunate knife culture which is turning
to a kind of fashion among youngsters and children here in
London.
According to the new proposal to be introduced anyone over 16
caught carrying a knife would be prosecuted previously they used
to be cautioned as the presumption of prosecution only applies
to those who are over 18.
Wa Akhiri Daawana Anil Hamdu Lillahi Rabbil Alameen.
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