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Police have launched a new operation to help people have a peaceful festive period as we target the associated crime and anti-social behaviour.

Speaking as forces across the country marked the national Op Sceptre anti-knife campaign, Supt Phil Staynings said they could not “police their way out of the problem”. He said Wiltshire Police had put a renewed focus on early intervention schemes aimed at diverting youngsters away from carrying knives, with officers working directly with teachers through a new police and schools panel and programmes supporting families of children known to be at risk of falling into crime. But Supt Staynings also confirmed that the force’s knife carrier’s index – a log of those suspected or ...

BURIED deep in the Adver’s picture archive there is a yellow-and-black box. Written on the box’s spine in black and red felt tip are three words: CRIME: LETHAL WEAPONS. Inside it is picture after picture of coppers holding everything from rocket launchers and assault rifles to murder weapons. Many of the images were taken by Adver photographers at weapon amnesties decades apart. Police officers in faded uniforms look out from among a sea of guns or knives. The box in the Adver's picture archive ‘This survived Dunkirk with me’ In 1988, almost 900 weapons were handed in during...

BURIED deep in the Adver’s picture archive there is a yellow-and-black Kodak box. Written on the box’s spine in black and red felt tip are three words: CRIME: LETHAL WEAPONS. Inside it is picture after picture of coppers holding everything from rocket launchers and assault rifles to murder weapons. Many of the images were taken by Adver photographers at weapon amnesties decades apart. Police officers in faded uniforms look out from among a sea of guns or knives. The box in the Adver's picture archive ‘This survived Dunkirk with me’ In 1988, almost 900 weapons were handed in ...

Eglantyne Avenue, Tadpole Garden Village Picture: GOOGLE A KNIFEMAN was given a verbal dressing down by the judge who sent him down for a year-and-a-half. Daniel Webdell, 33, was jailed for 17 months at Birmingham Crown Court yesterday for two charges of knife possession, including one charge relating to a brawl in Tadpole Garden Village in September during which he was seen with the blade. Sending the Rodbourne man to prison, Judge Roderick Henderson told him: “The danger of people carrying around weapons, particularly in confrontation situations is that somebody loses their control,...