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London police to use airport-type scanners in searches to fight knife crime
Published in Saudi Press Agency on 15 - 05 - 2008


A surge in violent knife crimes prompted
London police to introduce a new program Thursday that will
rely on mobile, airport-style scanners and hand-held metal
detectors for use against people suspected of carrying
concealed weapons, according to AP.
The new program, called Blunt 2, started this week in one
borough and should be in place in all 32 London boroughs
within the next few months, said a Metropolitan Police
spokesman, who asked not to be identified in line with
police rules.
The scanners have been in use by police for several years,
but many more have been purchased and will now be used much
more aggressively under a law that gives police the right
to search people without having to demonstrate beforehand
that there is reasonable cause to believe they are
committing a crime, the spokesman said Thursday.
«We've put it in under Section 60 of the Public Order
Act, which is slightly more in your face,» the spokesman
said. «We can give officers on the ground the powers to go
ahead and do it. We've got 550 metal detector wands and 244
search arches that can be used. If there's a problem, we
can place them outside a row of shops or a shopping center
and check people going in.»
The spokesman said it will be possible for police officers
to take the mobile wands onto buses and check passengers
for weapons.
He declined to name the borough where the program started.
London's reputation as a generally safe city has been
rocked this year by a marked increase in stabbings, with
more than 100 reported in the capital so far this year.
Most have not been fatal, but the slaying Monday of a
22-year-old man outside a McDonald's in the busy Oxford
Street shopping area of central London generated gruesome
headlines.
The victim, who had been facing charges for rape and other
serious crimes, was killed after an argument between two
groups of young people that took place during the evening
rush hour, when Oxford Street is usually packed with
thousands of pedestrians.


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