{"id":41419,"date":"2019-03-21T14:33:13","date_gmt":"2019-03-21T14:33:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jomec.co.uk\/intercardiff\/?p=41419"},"modified":"2019-03-21T14:33:13","modified_gmt":"2019-03-21T14:33:13","slug":"people-front-lines-wales-knife-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/global-city\/people-front-lines-wales-knife-crisis","title":{"rendered":"The people on the front lines of Wales&#8217; knife crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Knife crime has risen dramatically throughout Wales in recent years. Who are the people most put at risk?<\/span><\/h2>\n<figure id=\"attachment_41420\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-41420\" style=\"width: 625px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-41420\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2019\/03\/police-tape-625x352.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"625\" height=\"352\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-41420\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-41420\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2019\/03\/police-tape-625x352.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"625\" height=\"352\" \/><\/noscript> Knife crime has increased significantly across Wales over the last year, as well as the rest of the UK.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Door staff are often put in danger as a result of the rise in people carrying knives throughout Wales. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Wales\u2019 knife crime problem has resulted in a massive increase in people trying to bring knives into events and clubs, sometimes putting door staff at risk.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">&#8220;It is mainly events like concerts where we are coming across knives.With the reduction in police numbers 9 out of 10 times it is door staff who have to deal with this,\u201d said Dave Corbett, managing director of the security firm<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rubicon.wales\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Rubicon Wales<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, as reported by Wales Online. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Across Wales, there were 1,309 knife offenses recorded by the police in September 2018, a 38% increase from September 2009.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_41422\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-41422\" style=\"width: 625px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-41422\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2019\/03\/knife-625x351.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"625\" height=\"351\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-41422\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-41422\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2019\/03\/knife-625x351.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"625\" height=\"351\" \/><\/noscript> More and more people have been found to be carrying knives into clubs and events across Wales.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">&#8220;These staff may be on their own or in a pair. If the police were attending there would be about six of them and they would have a baton and CS gas. Door staff will just have a pair of gloves,&#8221; said Corbett.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Only yesterday, an incident of knife violence took place close to the Prince of Wales at about 3.30. An eyewitness said one carried a 4 inch blade and it took the police 40 minutes to respond.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Cardiff\u2019s Revolution Bar has not had any incidents, a fact likely due to its use of random searches as a deterrent. \u201cWe aim to do about 80 searches a night on the door and inside. But we\u2019re not picking up much,\u201d said James Stone, the manager. \u201cPeople know when they come here, they\u2019re gonna get searched.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.south-wales.police.uk\/en\/home\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">South Wales Police<\/a> set up the Operation Sceptre Team to reduce knife crime six months ago, which has since arrested 101 people.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_41423\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-41423\" style=\"width: 625px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-41423\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2019\/03\/police-1-625x352.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"625\" height=\"352\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-41423\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-41423\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2019\/03\/police-1-625x352.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"625\" height=\"352\" \/><\/noscript> South Wales Police&#8217;s Operation Sceptre follows a nationwide initiative to crack down on knife crime.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cOur aims are to pursue those carrying, and using knives in a public place, and to proactively patrol areas where there are community concerns,\u201d said Detective Sergeant Dan Sweeney, who leads the team. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Door staff at Revolution have repeatedly encountered a person who previously threatened a doorman at another venue with a knife. \u201cWe have to deal with that obviously in an appropriate manner without escalating the situation,\u201d said Gareth Davis, a doorman at Revolution. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cIf he ever comes towards the venue then we\u2019ll obviously alert the police, because they\u2019ve got surveillance on us all the time. So that\u2019s obviously our approach to that situation. Don\u2019t engage with him unless he comes towards us. Then obviously we have a duty to take care to protect ourselves on the door and the people within.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_41514\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-41514\" style=\"width: 625px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-41514\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2019\/03\/untitled-5c-20i_37625852-2-625x810.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"625\" height=\"810\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-41514\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-41514\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2019\/03\/untitled-5c-20i_37625852-2-625x810.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"625\" height=\"810\" \/><\/noscript> 1309 knife crimes were reported across Wales last year.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Police have also been responding to knife violence and its effect on <a href=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/politics-social-justice\/lessons-lockdowns-cardiff-schools-evaluate-safety-measures\">Cardiff&#8217;s students.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who are the people most threatened by the nation&#8217;s growing knife trend and what is being done about it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":484,"featured_media":41449,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"coauthors":[725],"class_list":["post-41419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-global-city"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The people on the front lines of Wales&#039; 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