What is Knife Crime?

Put simply, knife crime is a crime that involves a knife:

🎒 Carrying a knife
🔞 Trying to buy a knife if you are under 18
🤬 Threatening someone with a knife
❌ Owning a banned knife
🚑 Injuring or fatally wounding somebody with a knife
💭 Intent to injure or harm somebody with a knife
👮 A robbery or burglary where a knife was carried as a weapon

For simply carrying a knife in a public place or on school premises, the maximum penalty if convicted is four years in prison. Those found on more than one occasion to be in possession of a knife face a minimum sentence of six months.

For offences when a knife is used on another person or in the commission of a crime (i.e. street robbery), the punishments become even more life-changing.

Market Harborough Police Station has a knife disposal bin for knives of any type, which can be brought in for disposal Monday to Friday between 10am and 4pm.

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