Rejected petition Create a special unit in the Metropolitan police that focuses on knife crime.

The Government should create a special forces unit in the Metropolitan police that tackles knife crime.

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Knife crime has gotten out of hand in London and it is taking more and more lives. Something should be done before there is no going back.

This petition was rejected

Why was this petition rejected?

It’s about something that the UK Government or Parliament is not directly responsible for.

The police are operationally independent of the UK Government and Parliament, and it would be their decision to implement a special unit for knife crime. However we have published the following petitions, which you might like to sign:

Launch a national public awareness campaign about knife crime
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/608683

Minimum sentences and mandatory licensing for carrying a knife
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/602388

We only reject petitions that don’t meet the petition standards.

Date submitted 21 April 2022
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