Article: We don't have a big knife crime problem, insists senior officer; Home Office figures reveal there's a wounding nearly every day in South Wales as police are hit by 'embarrassing' rise in crime.(News)

Article: South Wales hotspot for knife crime
South Wales Evening Post;  July 18, 2008 ;     700+ words ...South Wales has been named one of Britain's knife crime hotspots. The South Wales force saw 585 knife offences ... Powys are below average. South Wales Police Assistant Chief ... Morris said the force took knife crime very seriously, and the ...

Article: We must all help to blunt knife crime; South ...
South Wales Echo (Cardiff, Wales);  November 18, 2008 ;     528 words ...THE latest police effort to curb knife crime in South Wales is one we should all, as a society ... the mean streets of the US rather than South Wales. It is imperative we all support South Wales Police's knife "hand-in". Without ...

Article: 'POLICE FORCE MUST SPEND FUNDS WISELY' Home Office Minister David ...
South Wales Echo (Cardiff, Wales);  July 31, 2009 ;     700+ words ... ... David Hanson yesterday as he spoke to South Wales Police Chief Constable Barbara Wilding ... policing and tackling crime, also said South Wales Police was properly funded. Earlier ... Minister David Hanson makes his point to South Wales Chief Constable Barbara Wilding

Article: Knife crime incity has risen by NINE per ...
South Wales Echo (Cardiff, Wales);  December 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ...Byline: By Anna Hammond South Wales Echo Knife crime in Cardiff has gone up by almost nine per cent - meaning ... pounds 4 in a knife-point robbery last November, fears knife crime is on the increase. 'Lee was an outgoing young lad ...

Article: Don't get complacent over knife crime, says MP ...
South Wales Echo (Cardiff, Wales);  July 19, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... David James SOUTH Wales Police must not ... complacent about knife crime because our problems ... said that the knife crime problems in South Wales were not as bad ... In terms of South Wales I don't think knife crime is a problem ...

Article: MP's warning for Valleys on knife crime.(News)
South Wales Echo (Cardiff, Wales);  August 22, 2008 ;     477 words ... ... when it comes to knife crime. A Freedom of Information ... Chris Bryant made to South Wales Police found that ... Across the whole of South Wales in 2007/08 there ... robbery, making South Wales the sixth highest area for knife crime in the UK. But ...

Article: Police at the Sharp end to stamp out knife crime
South Wales Evening Post;  December 11, 2008 ;     390 words ... ... part of a force-wide campaign to reduce knife crime. South Wales Police have launched a knife "hand ... and Port Talbot, said: "Thankfully, knife crime is not a part of everyday life in South Wales. "But what is important is that we do ...