A child aged only 10 was among 91 people under the age of 18. Police Scotland In 2024 a blade being captured by weapon.
Shocking Statistics Inspired the concerns of a “youth violence epidemic”.
It comes after deaths Teenagers Amen Tekle and Kayden Moy. Both died allegedly This year, a knife is being stabbed in different incidents.
Now the analysis of Police Scotland showed data stop and search data by Justice and Home Affairs Magazine 1919 that in 2024, teenagers calculated about one -third positive knife discoveries in all age groups.
91 cases where a person under the age of 18 was caught with a blade or pointed weapon was almost equal to a case every four days.
Data showed that a 10 -year -old was caught by a knife in July 2024 in the east of Edinburgh.
Meanwhile, 12 -year -old children were caught with blade weapons in the capital Glasgow, Irshire and Lanarkshire, the magazine reported.
In addition, more than a dozen children of the age of 13 – including two girls – were also found for such items when discovered.
David Threadoldgold, president of the Scottish Police Federation, said: “In fact, each of the shocking figures is increasingly a justified and evidence-based response about the social tendency by each police that we now see emerging between young members of our communities in Scotland.”
He said: “Each of these statistics is a real situation that has created significant risks for my colleagues, as well as possible lives for the offender, and sadly-as we have recently seen very tragic in Scotland- victim Knife crime, their family and friends. ,
Mr. Thradoldgold said that “the solution of this problem cannot rest alone with the police”, “too much and more effective preventive strategies” will be dumped across Scotland.
Polyn McNell, spokesman for Scottish Labor Justice, said: “These shocking figures are still another indication that a young violence epidemic is emerging in Scotland.”
He said: “Each of these 91 cases is very serious for our communities and potentially to carry arms for those who actually carry.
“The only way to deal with it effectively is initial intervention plans that reach the root cause, and without it we will thwart our communities.”
Asking for “immediate action”, he insisted that the Scottish government created an ideal storm by “cutting out the youth work services, declining the number of police officers and miscreants (children and adolescent mental health services) and education.”
First minister John Swine has already warned the youth against carrying the knife, insisting that it is “dangerous” and “harmful”.
But Scottish Tory Community Safety spokesman Sharon Dow stressed that it “high -time Nationalist Minister woke up to the gravity of this situation”.
The conservative MSP said: “These dangerous figures are naked as to how knife is out of crime.”
He said that “there is a need to be meaningful punishment for those who use” extended stop-end-set power as well as knives “to act as a preventive for the police.
However, he claimed: “The SNP’s soft-touch attitude towards justice represents an derogatory insult to the duty of John Swine’s government.”
A spokesperson of the Scottish government said: “Closed and search powers should be used where valid, essential and proportional. Their use in personal matters is an operational case for police Scotland.
“Police uses stops and search, and it is a tool to deal with violence with a series of prevention and education.”
Police Assistant Chief Constable Mark Sutherland, assistant chief constable of Police Scotland, said in the meantime: “Crime victims and people across the country hope that we will use all the powers at our disposal to keep them safe.
“Stop and search is one of those powers and one of every three discoveries leads to the recovery of illegal or harmful items while protecting our communities.”
Mr. Sutherland insisted that “there is a valuable and effective policing strategy in detecting and preventing intelligence-oriented stop and search crime when it is used legitimately, proportionally and to the practice code, which was introduced in 2017”.
This code has a “dedicated section dedicated to children”, he said, which provides guidance to the authorities, when used when a child is used to stop and find.
He said: “We believe that stopping and discovering people is an important intrusion into their personal freedom and privacy and we are committed to ensure that people be treated with fairness, integrity and respect.
“It is also a strategy that enables service to protect people and help to ensure the good of our broad communities.”
