LONDON’S top cop visited a specialist unit in Glasgow in a bid to get tips on how to tackle a knife crime epidemic.
Metropolitan Commissioner Cressida Dick met senior figures behind the Violence Reduction Unit during her visit to the city, The Scottish Sun reports.
The VRU was set up in 2005 and helped remove Glasgow’s shame of being the murder capital of Europe.
Last year, none of the UK’s 39 deadly stabbings of children and young adults were in Scotland.
Blade crime in London, however, is at its highest level for ten years with at least 15 fatal knife injuries this year.
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A MET spokesman said: “The Scottish model has been explored by the Met before and whilst the operating contexts are very different there have been clear successes in some aspects of enforcement and the multi-agency approach that has been adopted.”
The Violence Reduction Unit targeted Glasgow gangs, confronting them with survivors and bereaved mothers while also campaigning for tougher sentences for weapons offences.
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