Knife and Gun Crime Have Been Under Reported, Police Memo Admits

[Trevortt]

Violent offences including gun crime and knife crime are far more common than official figures currently suggest, a leaked police memo has disclosed.
These two sorts of crime are particularly - but not exclusively - prevalent in immigrant communities, a fact which has made the report into the political hot potato that it is.

The internal memo, written by a senior officer, says there has been significant under reporting of serious crime and warns of “serious concerns” that confidence in the police and Government will be knocked when the true levels are revealed.

It was drawn up in response to a briefing paper given to the Metropolitan Police Authority outlining Home Office changes to the definition of crimes.
Under the changes, police have been told to classify all offences as gun or knife crime when there is a threat with a weapon. Previously, this did not happen if the weapons were hidden.

Similarly, more assaults are to be classified as grievous bodily harm rather than the less serious actual bodily harm when a victim is injured.

In the memo, Det Chief Superintendent Peter Barron said: “The potential increase could be a rise in recorded GBH of 58 per cent, a rise in gun crime of 20 per cent and a rise in knife crime of 15 per cent.”

Last year there were 22,151 recorded knife crimes in England and Wales and 9,803 firearm offences.

A Metropolitan Police spokesman said: “The issue is about the impact of these changes to recording processes, required of all forces in England and Wales, and not about a rise in actual crime.

“For example, a robbery where a knife has been intimated only was previously recorded as a robbery. However, under the changes it is now recorded as a knife crime, and the use of sharp or pointed instruments has also been included in the knife crime definition.”

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I agree. No fewer than seven white males have been victims of knife crimes in the past 4 weeks in Nottingham. Typically, the local rags have neglected to cover any of these stories. These papers only print an article if it is a very rare ‘white on black’ assault.

Therefore, the stereotype that only ‘Whites’ can be racists. is again reinforced in the public mind. The owners of these local rags have a lot to answer for in my eyes