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Plan aims to tackle 'too many lives' blighted by knife crime and violence in Greater Manchester

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here Greater Manchester Police, with the help of the VRU, has recovered more than a thousand knives from sweeps of public stashes, amnesty bin collections and intercepted packages.

But while enforcement remains a key way of addressing the issue, the new plan announced by the Greater Manchester Combined Authority will focus on early intervention, education and prevention.And it will be informed by people living in areas most affected by violence and where inequality is most stark.Ibrahim Ismail, from the self-help voluntary group Bolton Solidarity Community Association, said: “Empowering communities to solve the problems themselves is something we’ve been crying out for.“At the end of the day, we live in these areas.

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