To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Baroness Williams of Trafford on 11 December (HL3775), which police forces in England and Wales took part in the week of action to tackle knife crime under Operation Sceptre.
Answered on
20 December 2017
The Government continues to encourage police forces to undertake a series of coordinated national weeks of action to tackle knife crime under Operation Sceptre
In October 2016, twenty-one police forces took part in a week of coordinated activity under Operation Sceptre. A further major operation took place in July 2017, in which 32 forces participated. The full list of participating forces are as follows:
October 2016
Avon and Somerset
Bedfordshire
British Transport Police
Cambridgeshire
City of London
Cleveland
Cumbria
Essex
Greater Manchester Police
Hertfordshire
Kent Police
Lancashire
Leicestershire
Merseyside
Metropolitan Police Service
Norfolk
Northamptonshire
North Wales
North Yorkshire
South Wales
West Midlands
July 2017
Avon and Somerset
Bedfordshire
British Transport Police
Cambridgeshire
City of London Police
Cleveland
Dorset
Dyfed Powys
Essex
Gloucestershire
Greater Manchester Police
Hampshire
Hertfordshire
Kent
Lancashire
Leicestershire
Merseyside
Metropolitan Police Service
Norfolk
North Yorkshire
Northamptonshire
Northumbria
North Wales
Nottinghamshire
South Wales
Staffordshire
Suffolk
Surrey
Sussex
Thames Valley Police
West Midlands
Wiltshire