{"id":37418,"date":"2019-11-05T16:26:54","date_gmt":"2019-11-05T16:26:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/?p=37418"},"modified":"2019-11-05T16:26:54","modified_gmt":"2019-11-05T16:26:54","slug":"hand-in-your-knives-to-combat-crime-urge-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/2019\/11\/05\/hand-in-your-knives-to-combat-crime-urge-police\/","title":{"rendered":"Hand in your knives to  combat crime, urge police"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Teams of Cardiff officers are tackling\u00a0violence with knife\u00a0amnesties and events\u00a0<\/strong><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n<p>POLICE are inviting people to hand in knives to be destroyed as part of an operation against knife crime in Cardiff.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p>Knife amnesties, in which people can hand in weapons, are being organised as part of Operation Cosmos, South Wales Police\u2019s effort to tackle knife crime in Cardiff.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p>These are held every Monday in November around the city, with four more planned across Roath, Cathays,&nbsp;Tremorfa&nbsp;and the city centre.&nbsp;They are part of a month-long programme of actions to combat knife crime.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n<p>The next knife amnesties will be on November 11 at Roath police station on Clifton Street and Cathays police station on\u00a0Crwys\u00a0Road, followed by two on November 18 at the STAR hub in\u00a0Tremorfa\u00a0and the Cardiff central library hub.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p>A South Wales Police spokesperson said the force is waiting for the end of the campaign to release figures.\u00a0\u00a0They are destroying all knives collected.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n<p>South Wales Police\u2019s Cardiff division called the first knife amnesty, held at&nbsp;Lamby&nbsp;Way recycling centre, a \u201csuccess\u201d on Twitter, but did not say how many knives were collected.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-twitter wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Our first KNIFE AMNESTY is concluded and was a success. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/cardiffcouncil?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@CardiffCouncil<\/a><br><br>We would like to thank all those who attended.<br><br>Next <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/OpCosmos?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#OpCosmos<\/a> KNIFE AMNESTY dates below.<br><br>^57199 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/KnivesOffTheStreets?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#KnivesOffTheStreets<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/LivesNotKnives?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#LivesNotKnives<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/KeepingCardiffSafe?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#KeepingCardiffSafe<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/iqIIlcdlXK\">pic.twitter.com\/iqIIlcdlXK<\/a><\/p>&mdash; South Wales Police Cardiff (@SWPCardiff) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SWPCardiff\/status\/1191388057095884801?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 4, 2019<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n<p>\u201cOperation Cosmos is a localised part of Operation Sceptre, the national operation to tackle knife crime across the UK,\u201d the spokesperson said.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n<p>South Wales Police&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mirror.co.uk\/news\/uk-news\/shocking-photos-show-scale-uk-14161779\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">collected over 100 knives<\/a>&nbsp;in a knife amnesty in March this year, also as part of Operation Sceptre.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n<p>Knife crime&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/2019\/02\/19\/knife-crime-rises-30-in-one-year-in-south-wales\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">has been rising<\/a>&nbsp;in Cardiff for several years, with 735 offences between September 2017 and September 2018.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n<p>Earlier this week, two brothers\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.walesonline.co.uk\/news\/wales-news\/live-updates-brothers-sentenced-attack-17194964\" target=\"_blank\">were sentenced<\/a>\u00a0for stabbing a man and attacking worshippers at a mosque during Ramadan earlier this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Teams of Cardiff officers are tackling\u00a0violence with knife\u00a0amnesties and events\u00a0 POLICE are inviting people to hand in knives to be destroyed as part of an operation against knife crime in Cardiff.\u00a0 Knife amnesties, in which people can hand in weapons, are being organised as part of Operation Cosmos, South Wales Police\u2019s effort to tackle knife crime in Cardiff.\u00a0 These are held every Monday in November around the city, with four more planned across Roath, Cathays,&nbsp;Tremorfa&nbsp;and the city centre.&nbsp;They are part 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